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smp_ops providers do not modify their ops structures, so they should be
made const for robustness. Since currently the MIPS kernel is not mapped
with memory protection, this does not in itself provide any security
benefit, but it still makes sense to make this change.
There are also slight code size efficincies from the structure being
made read-only, saving 128 bytes of kernel text on a
pistachio_defconfig.
Before:
text data bss dec hex filename
7187239 1772752 470224 9430215 8fe4c7 vmlinux
After:
text data bss dec hex filename
7187111 1772752 470224 9430087 8fe447 vmlinux
Signed-off-by: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@imgtec.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Marcin Nowakowski <marcin.nowakowski@imgtec.com>
Cc: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhc@lemote.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Steven J. Hill <steven.hill@cavium.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/16784/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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