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2009-02-06MERGE-via-pending-tracking-hist-MERGE-via-stable-tracking-MERGE-via-mokopatc ↵merge
hes-tracking-MERGE-via-master-MERGE-via-master-hist-1232625318-1233879011-1233879414-1233879505 pending-tracking-hist top was MERGE-via-stable-tracking-MERGE-via-mokopatches-tracking-MERGE-via-master-MERGE-via-master-hist-1232625318-1233879011-1233879414-1233879505 / 1c405b6ccee468298e7ccbfd9a3a3f4d123207b0 ... parent commitmessage: From: merge <null@invalid> MERGE-via-stable-tracking-hist-MERGE-via-mokopatches-tracking-MERGE-via-master-MERGE-via-master-hist-1232625318-1233879011-1233879414 stable-tracking-hist top was MERGE-via-mokopatches-tracking-MERGE-via-master-MERGE-via-master-hist-1232625318-1233879011-1233879414 / 71be0a45396066b1f8f27f8f4f87937247a129e1 ... parent commitmessage: From: merge <null@invalid> MERGE-via-mokopatches-tracking-hist-MERGE-via-master-MERGE-via-master-hist-1232625318-1233879011 mokopatches-tracking-hist top was MERGE-via-master-MERGE-via-master-hist-1232625318-1233879011 / 1be1b01373f572a02c6f1f99863c8c11ed2f9f5b ... parent commitmessage: From: merge <null@invalid> MERGE-via-master-MERGE-via-master-hist-1232625318 master top was MERGE-via-master-hist-1232625318 / dd4b117123ae66451695810017eb72fbdfc05df5 ... parent commitmessage: From: merge <null@invalid> MERGE-master-patchset-edits
2009-01-22MERGE-via-pending-tracking-hist-MERGE-via-stable-tracking-MERGE-via-mokopatc ↵merge
hes-tracking-fix-stray-endmenu-patch-1232632040-1232632141 pending-tracking-hist top was MERGE-via-stable-tracking-MERGE-via-mokopatches-tracking-fix-stray-endmenu-patch-1232632040-1232632141 / fdf777a63bcb59e0dfd78bfe2c6242e01f6d4eb9 ... parent commitmessage: From: merge <null@invalid> MERGE-via-stable-tracking-hist-MERGE-via-mokopatches-tracking-fix-stray-endmenu-patch-1232632040 stable-tracking-hist top was MERGE-via-mokopatches-tracking-fix-stray-endmenu-patch-1232632040 / 90463bfd2d5a3c8b52f6e6d71024a00e052b0ced ... parent commitmessage: From: merge <null@invalid> MERGE-via-mokopatches-tracking-hist-fix-stray-endmenu-patch mokopatches-tracking-hist top was fix-stray-endmenu-patch / 3630e0be570de8057e7f8d2fe501ed353cdf34e6 ... parent commitmessage: From: Andy Green <andy@openmoko.com> fix-stray-endmenu.patch Signed-off-by: Andy Green <andy@openmoko.com>
2008-10-229p: fix format warningEric Van Hensbergen
This patch fixes a format warning which appears on 64-bit builds. Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2008-10-179p: fix device file handlingMagnus Deininger
In v9fs_get_inode(), for block, as well as char devices (in theory), the function init_special_inode() is called to set up callback functions for file ops. this function uses the file mode's value to determine whether to use block or char dev functions. In v9fs_inode_from_fid(), the function p9mode2unixmode() is used, but for all devices it initially returns S_IFBLK, then uses v9fs_get_inode() to initialise a new inode, then finally uses v9fs_stat2inode(), which would determine whether the inode is a block or character device. However, at that point init_special_inode() had already decided to use the block device functions, so even if the inode's mode is turned to a character device, the block functions are still used to operate on them. The attached patch simply calls init_special_inode() again for devices after parsing device node data in v9fs_stat2inode() so that the proper functions are used. Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2008-10-179p: eliminate depricated conv functionsEric Van Hensbergen
Remove depricated conv functions which have been replaced with new protocol routines. This patch also reworks the one instance of the file-system code which directly calls conversion routines (to accomplish unpacking dirreads). Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2008-10-179p: rework client code to use new protocol support functionsEric Van Hensbergen
Now that the new protocol functions are in place, this patch switches the client code to using the new support code. Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2008-10-179p: move dirread to fs layerEric Van Hensbergen
Currently reading a directory is implemented in the client code. This function is not actually a wire operation, but a meta operation which calls read operations and processes the results. This patch moves this functionality to the fs layer and calls component wire operations instead of constructing their packets. This provides a cleaner separation and will help when we reorganize the client functions and protocol processing methods. Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2008-10-179p: adjust 9p vfs write operationEric Van Hensbergen
Currently, the 9p net wire operation ensures that all data is sent by sending multiple packets if the data requested is larger than the msize. This is better handled in the vfs code so that we can simplify wire operations to being concerned with only putting data onto and taking data off of the wire. Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2008-10-179p: move readn meta-function from client to fs layerEric Van Hensbergen
There are a couple of methods in the client code which aren't actually wire operations. To keep things organized cleaner, these operations are being moved to the fs layer. This patch moves the readn meta-function (which executes multiple wire reads until a buffer is full) to the fs layer. Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2008-10-179p: consolidate read/write functionsEric Van Hensbergen
Currently there are two separate versions of read and write. One for dealing with user buffers and the other for dealing with kernel buffers. There is a tremendous amount of code duplication in the otherwise identical versions of these functions. This patch adds an additional user buffer parameter to read and write and conditionalizes handling of the buffer on whether the kernel buffer or the user buffer is populated. Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2008-10-179p: consolidate transport structureEric Van Hensbergen
Right now there is a transport module structure which provides per-transport type functions and data and a transport structure which contains per-instance public data as well as function pointers to instance specific functions. This patch moves public transport visible instance data to the client structure (which in some cases had duplicate data) and consolidates the functions into the transport module structure. Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2008-10-13vfs: Use const for kernel parser tableSteven Whitehouse
This is a much better version of a previous patch to make the parser tables constant. Rather than changing the typedef, we put the "const" in all the various places where its required, allowing the __initconst exception for nfsroot which was the cause of the previous trouble. This was posted for review some time ago and I believe its been in -mm since then. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <aviro@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-249p: use an IS_ERR test rather than a NULL testJulien Brunel
In case of error, the function p9_client_walk returns an ERR pointer, but never returns a NULL pointer. So a NULL test that comes after an IS_ERR test should be deleted. The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // <smpl> @match_bad_null_test@ expression x, E; statement S1,S2; @@ x = p9_client_walk(...) ... when != x = E * if (x != NULL) S1 else S2 // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julien Brunel <brunel@diku.dk> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-25[PATCH] fix ->llseek() for a bunch of directoriesAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-039p: fix O_APPEND in legacy modeEric Van Hensbergen
The legacy protocol's open operation doesn't handle an append operation (it is expected that the client take care of it). We were incorrectly passing the extended protocol's flag through even in legacy mode. This was reported in bugzilla report #10689. This patch fixes the problem by disallowing extended protocol open modes from being passed in legacy mode and implemented append functionality on the client side by adding a seek after the open. Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2008-05-149p: fix error path during early mountEric Van Hensbergen
There was some cleanup issues during early mount which would trigger a kernel bug for certain types of failure. This patch reorganizes the cleanup to get rid of the bad behavior. This also merges the 9pnet and 9pnet_fd modules for the purpose of configuration and initialization. Keeping the fd transport separate from the core 9pnet code seemed like a good idea at the time, but in practice has caused more harm and confusion than good. Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2008-05-14fs/9p/v9fs.c (v9fs_parse_options): Handle kstrdup and match_strdup failure. ↵Jim Meyering
Now that this function can fail, return an int, diagnose other option-parsing failures, and adjust the sole caller: (v9fs_session_init): Handle kstrdup failure. Propagate any new v9fs_parse_options failure "up". Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> Cc: Ron Minnich <rminnich@sandia.gov> Cc: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2008-05-149p: Documentation updatesEric Van Hensbergen
The kernel-doc comments of much of the 9p system have been in disarray since reorganization. This patch fixes those problems, adds additional documentation and a template book which collects the 9p information. Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2008-05-14add match_strlcpy() us it to make v9fs make uname and remotename parsing ↵Markus Armbruster
more robust match_strcpy() is a somewhat creepy function: the caller needs to make sure that the destination buffer is big enough, and when he screws up or forgets, match_strcpy() happily overruns the buffer. There's exactly one customer: v9fs_parse_options(). I believe it currently can't overflow its buffer, but that's not exactly obvious. The source string is a substing of the mount options. The kernel silently truncates those to PAGE_SIZE bytes, including the terminating zero. See compat_sys_mount() and do_mount(). The destination buffer is obtained from __getname(), which allocates from name_cachep, which is initialized by vfs_caches_init() for size PATH_MAX. We're safe as long as PATH_MAX <= PAGE_SIZE. PATH_MAX is 4096. As far as I know, the smallest PAGE_SIZE is also 4096. Here's a patch that makes the code a bit more obviously correct. It doesn't depend on PATH_MAX <= PAGE_SIZE. Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Cc: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> Cc: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2008-04-25[PATCH] restore sane ->umount_begin() APIAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-04-18fs: Remove unnecessary inclusions of asm/semaphore.hMatthew Wilcox
None of these files use any of the functionality promised by asm/semaphore.h. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
2008-02-07Convert ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(p)) instances to ERR_CAST(p)David Howells
Convert instances of ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(p)) to ERR_CAST(p) using: perl -spi -e 's/ERR_PTR[(]PTR_ERR[(](.*)[)][)]/ERR_CAST(\1)/' `grep -rl 'ERR_PTR[(]*PTR_ERR' fs crypto net security` Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-069p: transport API reorganizationEric Van Hensbergen
This merges the mux.c (including the connection interface) with trans_fd in preparation for transport API changes. Ultimately, trans_fd will need to be rewritten to clean it up and simplify the implementation, but this reorganization is viewed as the first step. Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2008-02-069p: fix mmap to be read-onlyEric Van Hensbergen
v9fs was allowing writable mmap which could lead to kernel BUG() cases. This sets the mmap function to generic_file_readonly_mmap which (correctly) returns an error to applications which open mmap for writing. Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2008-02-069p: add support for sticky bitAnthony Liguori
GDM gets unhappy if /var/gdm doesn't have the sticky bit set. This patch adds support for the sticky bit in much the same way setuid/setgid is supported. With this patch, I can launch X from a v9fs rootfs (although I quickly run out of fds in the server once gnome starts up). Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2008-02-069p: fix bug in attach-per-userEric Van Hensbergen
When a new user attached at a directory other than the root, he would end up in the parent directory of the cwd. This was due to a logic error in the code which attaches the user at the mount point and walks back to the cwd. This patch fixes that. Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2007-11-069p: use copy of the options value instead of originalLatchesar Ionkov
v9fs_parse_options function uses strsep which modifies the value of the v9ses->options field. That modified value is later passed to the function that creates the transport potentially making the transport creation function to fail. This patch creates a copy of v9ses->option field that v9fs_parse_options function uses instead of the original value. Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> Acked-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2007-11-069p: fix memory leak in v9fs_get_sbLatchesar Ionkov
This patch fixes a memory leak in v9fs_get_sb. Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> Acked-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2007-10-239p: v9fs_vfs_rename incorrect clunk orderLatchesar Ionkov
In v9fs_vfs_rename function labels don't match the fids that are clunked. The correct clunk order is clunking newdirfid first and then olddirfid next. Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2007-10-239p: fix memleak in fs/9p/v9fs.cAdrian Bunk
This patch fixes a memory leak introduced by commit ba17674fe02909fef049fd4b620a2805bdb8c693. Spotted by the Coverity checker. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2007-10-179p: fix bad kconfig cross-dependencyEric Van Hensbergen
This patch moves transport dynamic registration and matching to the net module to prevent a bad Kconfig dependency between the net and fs 9p modules. Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2007-10-179p: soften invalidation in loose_modeEric Van Hensbergen
Loose mode in 9p utilizes the page cache without respecting coherency with the server. Any writes previously invaldiated the entire mapping for a file. This patch softens the behavior to only invalidate the region of the actual write. Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2007-10-179p: attach-per-userLatchesar Ionkov
The 9P2000 protocol requires the authentication and permission checks to be done in the file server. For that reason every user that accesses the file server tree has to authenticate and attach to the server separately. Multiple users can share the same connection to the server. Currently v9fs does a single attach and executes all I/O operations as a single user. This makes using v9fs in multiuser environment unsafe as it depends on the client doing the permission checking. This patch improves the 9P2000 support by allowing every user to attach separately. The patch defines three modes of access (new mount option 'access'): - attach-per-user (access=user) (default mode for 9P2000.u) If a user tries to access a file served by v9fs for the first time, v9fs sends an attach command to the server (Tattach) specifying the user. If the attach succeeds, the user can access the v9fs tree. As there is no uname->uid (string->integer) mapping yet, this mode works only with the 9P2000.u dialect. - allow only one user to access the tree (access=<uid>) Only the user with uid can access the v9fs tree. Other users that attempt to access it will get EPERM error. - do all operations as a single user (access=any) (default for 9P2000) V9fs does a single attach and all operations are done as a single user. If this mode is selected, the v9fs behavior is identical with the current one. Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2007-10-179p: rename uid and gid parametersLatchesar Ionkov
Change the names of 'uid' and 'gid' parameters to the more appropriate 'dfltuid' and 'dfltgid'. This also sets the default uid/gid to -2 (aka nfsnobody) Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2007-10-179p: define session flagsLatchesar Ionkov
Create more general flags field in the v9fs_session_info struct and move the 'extended' flag as a bit in the flags. Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2007-10-179p: Make transports dynamicEric Van Hensbergen
This patch abstracts out the interfaces to underlying transports so that new transports can be added as modules. This should also allow kernel configuration of transports without ifdef-hell. Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2007-10-099PFS: clean up explicit check for mandatory locksPavel Emelyanov
The __mandatory_lock(inode) macro makes the same check, but makes the code more readable. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> Cc: Ron Minnich <rminnich@sandia.gov> Cc: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-239p: remove deprecated v9fs_fid_lookup_remove()Eric Van Hensbergen
This patch removes the v9fs_fid_lookup_remove which is no longer used. Based on original patch from Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> which used #if 0 to isolate the code. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2007-07-169p: fix debug compilation errorEric Van Hensbergen
s/9p/v9fs.c: In function 'v9fs_parse_options': fs/9p/v9fs.c:134: error: 'p9_debug_level' undeclared (first use in this function) Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Acked-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2007-07-149p: re-enable mount time debug optionEric Van Hensbergen
During reorganization, the mount time debug option was removed in favor of module-load-time parameters. However, the mount time option is still a useful for feature during debug and for user-fault isolation when the module is compiled into the kernel. Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2007-07-149p: cache meta-data when cache=looseEric Van Hensbergen
This patch expands the impact of the loose cache mode to allow for cached metadata increasing the performance of directory listings and other metadata read operations. Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2007-07-149p: Reorganization of 9p file system codeLatchesar Ionkov
This patchset moves non-filesystem interfaces of v9fs from fs/9p to net/9p. It moves the transport, packet marshalling and connection layers to net/9p leaving only the VFS related files in fs/9p. This work is being done in preparation for in-kernel 9p servers as well as alternate 9p clients (other than VFS). Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2007-05-21Detach sched.h from mm.hAlexey Dobriyan
First thing mm.h does is including sched.h solely for can_do_mlock() inline function which has "current" dereference inside. By dealing with can_do_mlock() mm.h can be detached from sched.h which is good. See below, why. This patch a) removes unconditional inclusion of sched.h from mm.h b) makes can_do_mlock() normal function in mm/mlock.c c) exports can_do_mlock() to not break compilation d) adds sched.h inclusions back to files that were getting it indirectly. e) adds less bloated headers to some files (asm/signal.h, jiffies.h) that were getting them indirectly Net result is: a) mm.h users would get less code to open, read, preprocess, parse, ... if they don't need sched.h b) sched.h stops being dependency for significant number of files: on x86_64 allmodconfig touching sched.h results in recompile of 4083 files, after patch it's only 3744 (-8.3%). Cross-compile tested on all arm defconfigs, all mips defconfigs, all powerpc defconfigs, alpha alpha-up arm i386 i386-up i386-defconfig i386-allnoconfig ia64 ia64-up m68k mips parisc parisc-up powerpc powerpc-up s390 s390-up sparc sparc-up sparc64 sparc64-up um-x86_64 x86_64 x86_64-up x86_64-defconfig x86_64-allnoconfig as well as my two usual configs. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not usedRandy Dunlap
Remove includes of <linux/smp_lock.h> where it is not used/needed. Suggested by Al Viro. Builds cleanly on x86_64, i386, alpha, ia64, powerpc, sparc, sparc64, and arm (all 59 defconfigs). Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-24v9fs: don't use primary fid when removing fileLatchesar Ionkov
v9fs_insert uses v9fs_fid_lookup (which also locks the fid) to get the primary fid associated with the dentry and destroys the v9fs_fid struct after removing the file. If another process called v9fs_fid_lookup on the same dentry, it may wait undefinitely for the fid's lock (as the struct is freed). This patch changes v9fs_remove to use a cloned fid, so the primary fid is not locked and freed. Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@hera.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-269p: make struct v9fs_cached_file_operations staticAdrian Bunk
This patch makes te needlessly global struct v9fs_cached_file_operations static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2007-02-189p: implement optional loose read cacheEric Van Hensbergen
While cacheing is generally frowned upon in the 9p world, it has its place -- particularly in situations where the remote file system is exclusive and/or read-only. The vacfs views of venti content addressable store are a real-world instance of such a situation. To facilitate higher performance for these workloads (and eventually use the fscache patches), we have enabled a "loose" cache mode which does not attempt to maintain any form of consistency on the page-cache or dcache. This results in over two orders of magnitude performance improvement for cacheable block reads in the Bonnie benchmark. The more aggressive use of the dcache also seems to improve metadata operational performance. Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2007-02-189p: Use kthread_stop instead of sending a SIGKILL.Eric W. Biederman
Since the kthread api does not bump the reference count on processes that tracked it is not safe allow user space to kill the threads, as I still retain a pointer to the task_struct. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2007-02-12[PATCH] Mark struct super_operations constJosef 'Jeff' Sipek
This patch is inspired by Arjan's "Patch series to mark struct file_operations and struct inode_operations const". Compile tested with gcc & sparse. Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-12[PATCH] mark struct inode_operations const 1Arjan van de Ven
Many struct inode_operations in the kernel can be "const". Marking them const moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential dirty data. In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to these shared resources. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>