[PATCH] powerpc: Declare hcall_inst_seq_ops const

Tobias Klauser tklauser at distanz.ch
Mon Sep 7 17:28:20 EST 2009


Marking it const moves it 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.

(description taken from commit 5dfe4c964a0dd7bb3a1d64a4166835a153146207)

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser at distanz.ch>
---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hvCall_inst.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hvCall_inst.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hvCall_inst.c
index eae51ef..3631a4f 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hvCall_inst.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hvCall_inst.c
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ static int hc_show(struct seq_file *m, void *p)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static struct seq_operations hcall_inst_seq_ops = {
+static const struct seq_operations hcall_inst_seq_ops = {
         .start = hc_start,
         .next  = hc_next,
         .stop  = hc_stop,
-- 
1.6.0.4



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