Driver core: Constify struct sysfs_ops in struct kobj_type

Constify struct sysfs_ops.

This is part of the ops structure constification
effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al.

Benefits of this constification:

 * prevents modification of data that is shared
   (referenced) by many other structure instances
   at runtime

 * detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional)
   modification attempts on archs that enforce
   read-only kernel data at runtime

 * potentially better optimized code as the compiler
   can assume that the const data cannot be changed

 * the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata
   and therefore exclude them from false sharing

Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David Teigland <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Matt Domsch <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Hans J. Koch <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
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Emese Revfy 2010-01-19 02:58:23 +01:00 • committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
commit 52cf25d0ab
54 changed files with 69 additions and 70 deletions

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@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ static struct attribute *integrity_attrs[] = {
NULL,
};
static struct sysfs_ops integrity_ops = {
static const struct sysfs_ops integrity_ops = {
.show = &integrity_attr_show,
.store = &integrity_attr_store,
};