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author | Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com> | 2010-01-19 02:58:23 +0100 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2010-03-07 17:04:49 -0800 |
commit | 52cf25d0ab7f78eeecc59ac652ed5090f69b619e (patch) | |
tree | 031d1ffb3890bd69c0260c864c512e0be62ac05c /Documentation | |
parent | 6c1733aca0b48db4d0e660d54976a1cca25b5eaf (diff) |
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 <re.emese@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com>
Acked-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kobject.txt | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kobject.txt b/Documentation/kobject.txt index c79ab996dad..bdb13817e1e 100644 --- a/Documentation/kobject.txt +++ b/Documentation/kobject.txt @@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ kobj_type: struct kobj_type { void (*release)(struct kobject *); - struct sysfs_ops *sysfs_ops; + const struct sysfs_ops *sysfs_ops; struct attribute **default_attrs; }; |