[BLOCK] mark some block/ variables cons

the patch below marks various read-only variables in block/* as const,
so that gcc can optimize the use of them; eg gcc will replace the use by
the value directly now and will even remove the memory usage of these.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[e-mail]>

block/cfq-iosched.c

···
 /*
  * tunables
  */
-static int cfq_quantum = 4;		/* max queue in one round of service */
-static int cfq_queued = 8;		/* minimum rq allocate limit per-queue*/
-static int cfq_fifo_expire[2] = { HZ / 4, HZ / 8 };
-static int cfq_back_max = 16 * 1024;	/* maximum backwards seek, in KiB */
-static int cfq_back_penalty = 2;	/* penalty of a backwards seek */
+static const int cfq_quantum = 4;		/* max queue in one round of service */
+static const int cfq_queued = 8;		/* minimum rq allocate limit per-queue*/
+static const int cfq_fifo_expire[2] = { HZ / 4, HZ / 8 };
+static const int cfq_back_max = 16 * 1024;	/* maximum backwards seek, in KiB */
+static const int cfq_back_penalty = 2;		/* penalty of a backwards seek */
 
-static int cfq_slice_sync = HZ / 10;
+static const int cfq_slice_sync = HZ / 10;
 static int cfq_slice_async = HZ / 25;
-static int cfq_slice_async_rq = 2;
+static const int cfq_slice_async_rq = 2;
 static int cfq_slice_idle = HZ / 100;
 
 #define CFQ_IDLE_GRACE		(HZ / 10)
···
 /*
  * disable queueing at the driver/hardware level
  */
-static int cfq_max_depth = 2;
+static const int cfq_max_depth = 2;
 
 /*
  * for the hash of cfqq inside the cfqd

block/deadline-iosched.c

···
 /*
  * See Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt
  */
-static int read_expire = HZ / 2;  /* max time before a read is submitted. */
-static int write_expire = 5 * HZ; /* ditto for writes, these limits are SOFT! */
-static int writes_starved = 2;    /* max times reads can starve a write */
-static int fifo_batch = 16;       /* # of sequential requests treated as one
+static const int read_expire = HZ / 2;  /* max time before a read is submitted. */
+static const int write_expire = 5 * HZ; /* ditto for writes, these limits are SOFT! */
+static const int writes_starved = 2;    /* max times reads can starve a write */
+static const int fifo_batch = 16;       /* # of sequential requests treated as one
 				     by the above parameters. For throughput. */
 
 static const int deadline_hash_shift = 5;

block/ll_rw_blk.c

···
 
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_queue_invalidate_tags);
 
-static char *rq_flags[] = {
+static const char * const rq_flags[] = {
 	"REQ_RW",
 	"REQ_FAILFAST",
 	"REQ_SORTED",

block/scsi_ioctl.c

···
 
 static int sg_get_version(int __user *p)
 {
-	static int sg_version_num = 30527;
+	static const int sg_version_num = 30527;
 	return put_user(sg_version_num, p);
 }