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>
LKML-Reference: <4B65D712.3080804@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Fix trivial style problems :
ERROR: trailing whitespace
WARNING: line over 80 characters
ERROR: do not use C99 // comments
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/amd.o:
text data bss dec hex filename
501 32 0 533 215 amd.o.before
501 32 0 533 215 amd.o.after
md5:
62f795eb840ee2d17b03df89e789e76c amd.o.before.asm
62f795eb840ee2d17b03df89e789e76c amd.o.after.asm
Suggested-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090703164225.GA21447@elte.hu>
[ Also restructured comments to be standard, removed stray return,
converted function description to DocBook style, etc. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This is a janitorish patch to 1) remove private TRUE/FALSE #def's in
favor of using the standard enum from linux/stddef.h and 2) switch the
variables holding those values to type 'bool' (from linux/types.h)
since it both seems more appropriate and allows for potentially better
optimization.
As a truly minor aside, I removed a couple of comments documenting
a 'do_safe' parameter that seems to no longer exist.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jimenez <pj@place.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
