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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>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.