Many struct file_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.
[akpm@osdl.org: sparc64 fix]
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>
kspd which due to makefile order happens to be initialized before the
vpe loader causes references to vpecontrol lists before they're actually
been initialized.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
XTC can only be set if VPA is clear, which it may not be. There is
also the possibility of a back to back c0 register access hazard to
take care of.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
imajor()/iminor() should be used instead of accessing r_dev directly.
Based on patch from Eric Sesterhenn (snakebyte@gmx.de).
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
o Switch to dynamic major
o Remove duplicate SHN_MIPS_SCOMMON definition
o Coding style: remove typedefs.
o Coding style: reorder to avoid the need for forward declarations
o Use kzalloc.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Ralf Baechle