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<title>linux.git/drivers/cpufreq, branch v2.6.35-rc4</title>
<subtitle>Clone of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git</subtitle>
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<title>Merge branch 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip</title>
<updated>2010-05-18T15:49:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-18T15:49:13+00:00</published>
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* 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, hypervisor: add missing &lt;linux/module.h&gt;
  Modify the VMware balloon driver for the new x86_hyper API
  x86, hypervisor: Export the x86_hyper* symbols
  x86: Clean up the hypervisor layer
  x86, HyperV: fix up the license to mshyperv.c
  x86: Detect running on a Microsoft HyperV system
  x86, cpu: Make APERF/MPERF a normal table-driven flag
  x86, k8: Fix build error when K8_NB is disabled
  x86, cacheinfo: Disable index in all four subcaches
  x86, cacheinfo: Make L3 cache info per node
  x86, cacheinfo: Reorganize AMD L3 cache structure
  x86, cacheinfo: Turn off L3 cache index disable feature in virtualized environments
  x86, cacheinfo: Unify AMD L3 cache index disable checking
  cpufreq: Unify sysfs attribute definition macros
  powernow-k8: Fix frequency reporting
  x86, cpufreq: Add APERF/MPERF support for AMD processors
  x86: Unify APERF/MPERF support
  powernow-k8: Add core performance boost support
  x86, cpu: Add AMD core boosting feature flag to /proc/cpuinfo

Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c and
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c
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* 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, hypervisor: add missing &lt;linux/module.h&gt;
  Modify the VMware balloon driver for the new x86_hyper API
  x86, hypervisor: Export the x86_hyper* symbols
  x86: Clean up the hypervisor layer
  x86, HyperV: fix up the license to mshyperv.c
  x86: Detect running on a Microsoft HyperV system
  x86, cpu: Make APERF/MPERF a normal table-driven flag
  x86, k8: Fix build error when K8_NB is disabled
  x86, cacheinfo: Disable index in all four subcaches
  x86, cacheinfo: Make L3 cache info per node
  x86, cacheinfo: Reorganize AMD L3 cache structure
  x86, cacheinfo: Turn off L3 cache index disable feature in virtualized environments
  x86, cacheinfo: Unify AMD L3 cache index disable checking
  cpufreq: Unify sysfs attribute definition macros
  powernow-k8: Fix frequency reporting
  x86, cpufreq: Add APERF/MPERF support for AMD processors
  x86: Unify APERF/MPERF support
  powernow-k8: Add core performance boost support
  x86, cpu: Add AMD core boosting feature flag to /proc/cpuinfo

Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c and
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c
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<title>ondemand: Make the iowait-is-busy time a sysfs tunable</title>
<updated>2010-05-09T17:35:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arjan van de Ven</name>
<email>arjan@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-09T15:26:51+00:00</published>
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Pavel Machek pointed out that not all CPUs have an efficient
idle at high frequency. Specifically, older Intel and various
AMD cpus would get a higher powerusage when copying files from
USB.

Mike Chan pointed out that the same is true for various ARM
chips as well.

Thomas Renninger suggested to make this a sysfs tunable with a
reasonable default.

This patch adds a sysfs tunable for the new behavior, and uses
a very simple function to determine a reasonable default,
depending on the CPU vendor/type.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@ucw.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: davej@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: &lt;20100509082651.46914d04@infradead.org&gt;
[ minor tidyup ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Pavel Machek pointed out that not all CPUs have an efficient
idle at high frequency. Specifically, older Intel and various
AMD cpus would get a higher powerusage when copying files from
USB.

Mike Chan pointed out that the same is true for various ARM
chips as well.

Thomas Renninger suggested to make this a sysfs tunable with a
reasonable default.

This patch adds a sysfs tunable for the new behavior, and uses
a very simple function to determine a reasonable default,
depending on the CPU vendor/type.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@ucw.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: davej@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: &lt;20100509082651.46914d04@infradead.org&gt;
[ minor tidyup ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<title>ondemand: Solve a big performance issue by counting IOWAIT time as busy</title>
<updated>2010-05-09T17:35:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arjan van de Ven</name>
<email>arjan@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-09T15:26:06+00:00</published>
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The ondemand cpufreq governor uses CPU busy time (e.g. not-idle
time) as a measure for scaling the CPU frequency up or down.
If the CPU is busy, the CPU frequency scales up, if it's idle,
the CPU frequency scales down. Effectively, it uses the CPU busy
time as proxy variable for the more nebulous "how critical is
performance right now" question.

This algorithm falls flat on its face in the light of workloads
where you're alternatingly disk and CPU bound, such as the ever
popular "git grep", but also things like startup of programs and
maildir using email clients... much to the chagarin of Andrew
Morton.

This patch changes the ondemand algorithm to count iowait time
as busy, not idle, time. As shown in the breakdown cases above,
iowait is performance critical often, and by counting iowait,
the proxy variable becomes a more accurate representation of the
"how critical is performance" question.

The problem and fix are both verified with the "perf timechar"
tool.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;20100509082606.3d9f00d0@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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The ondemand cpufreq governor uses CPU busy time (e.g. not-idle
time) as a measure for scaling the CPU frequency up or down.
If the CPU is busy, the CPU frequency scales up, if it's idle,
the CPU frequency scales down. Effectively, it uses the CPU busy
time as proxy variable for the more nebulous "how critical is
performance right now" question.

This algorithm falls flat on its face in the light of workloads
where you're alternatingly disk and CPU bound, such as the ever
popular "git grep", but also things like startup of programs and
maildir using email clients... much to the chagarin of Andrew
Morton.

This patch changes the ondemand algorithm to count iowait time
as busy, not idle, time. As shown in the breakdown cases above,
iowait is performance critical often, and by counting iowait,
the proxy variable becomes a more accurate representation of the
"how critical is performance" question.

The problem and fix are both verified with the "perf timechar"
tool.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;20100509082606.3d9f00d0@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge commit 'v2.6.34-rc6' into x86/cpu</title>
<updated>2010-05-08T21:59:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@zytor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-08T21:59:58+00:00</published>
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<title>Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq</title>
<updated>2010-04-24T18:35:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-04-24T18:35:21+00:00</published>
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* 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq:
  [CPUFREQ] use max load in conservative governor
  [CPUFREQ] fix a lockdep warning
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* 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq:
  [CPUFREQ] use max load in conservative governor
  [CPUFREQ] fix a lockdep warning
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<entry>
<title>cpufreq: Unify sysfs attribute definition macros</title>
<updated>2010-04-09T21:07:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>borislav.petkov@amd.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-31T19:56:46+00:00</published>
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Multiple modules used to define those which are with identical
functionality and were needlessly replicated among the different cpufreq
drivers. Push them into the header and remove duplication.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;borislav.petkov@amd.com&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;1270065406-1814-7-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Renninger &lt;trenn@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
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Multiple modules used to define those which are with identical
functionality and were needlessly replicated among the different cpufreq
drivers. Push them into the header and remove duplication.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;borislav.petkov@amd.com&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;1270065406-1814-7-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Renninger &lt;trenn@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
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<title>[CPUFREQ] use max load in conservative governor</title>
<updated>2010-03-31T16:00:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dominik Brodowski</name>
<email>linux@dominikbrodowski.net</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-26T09:01:34+00:00</published>
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Instead of using the load of the last CPU in a package, use the
maximum load of all CPUs in a package.

Reported-by: Jean-Christian Goussard &lt;jeanchristian.goussard@sfr.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski &lt;linux@dominikbrodowski.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
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Instead of using the load of the last CPU in a package, use the
maximum load of all CPUs in a package.

Reported-by: Jean-Christian Goussard &lt;jeanchristian.goussard@sfr.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski &lt;linux@dominikbrodowski.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[CPUFREQ] fix a lockdep warning</title>
<updated>2010-03-31T16:00:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Amerigo Wang</name>
<email>amwang@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-04T08:23:46+00:00</published>
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There is no need to do sysfs_remove_link() or kobject_put() etc.
when policy_rwsem_write is held, move them after releasing the lock.

This fixes the lockdep warning:

halt/4071 is trying to acquire lock:
 (s_active){++++.+}, at: [&lt;c0000000001ef868&gt;] .sysfs_addrm_finish+0x58/0xc0

but task is already holding lock:
 (&amp;per_cpu(cpu_policy_rwsem, cpu)){+.+.+.}, at: [&lt;c0000000004cd6ac&gt;] .lock_policy_rwsem_write+0x84/0xf4

Reported-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong &lt;amwang@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi &lt;venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
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There is no need to do sysfs_remove_link() or kobject_put() etc.
when policy_rwsem_write is held, move them after releasing the lock.

This fixes the lockdep warning:

halt/4071 is trying to acquire lock:
 (s_active){++++.+}, at: [&lt;c0000000001ef868&gt;] .sysfs_addrm_finish+0x58/0xc0

but task is already holding lock:
 (&amp;per_cpu(cpu_policy_rwsem, cpu)){+.+.+.}, at: [&lt;c0000000004cd6ac&gt;] .lock_policy_rwsem_write+0x84/0xf4

Reported-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong &lt;amwang@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi &lt;venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h</title>
<updated>2010-03-30T13:02:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-24T08:04:11+00:00</published>
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percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -&gt; slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
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percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -&gt; slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
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<title>Driver core: Constify struct sysfs_ops in struct kobj_type</title>
<updated>2010-03-08T01:04:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Emese Revfy</name>
<email>re.emese@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-01-19T01:58:23+00:00</published>
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Constify struct sysfs_ops.

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 &lt;re.emese@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Matt Domsch &lt;Matt_Domsch@dell.com&gt;
Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski &lt;maciej.sosnowski@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Hans J. Koch &lt;hjk@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@cs.helsinki.fi&gt;
Acked-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@vyatta.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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Constify struct sysfs_ops.

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 &lt;re.emese@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Matt Domsch &lt;Matt_Domsch@dell.com&gt;
Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski &lt;maciej.sosnowski@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Hans J. Koch &lt;hjk@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@cs.helsinki.fi&gt;
Acked-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@vyatta.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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