diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/s390/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 9289fac..9f34bb5 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -58,9 +58,11 @@
   . = ALIGN(4096);
   .data.page_aligned : { *(.data.idt) }
 
-  . = ALIGN(32);
+  . = ALIGN(256);
   .data.cacheline_aligned : { *(.data.cacheline_aligned) }
 
+  . = ALIGN(256);
+  .data.read_mostly : { *(.data.read_mostly) }
   _edata = .;			/* End of data section */
 
   . = ALIGN(8192);		/* init_task */
diff --git a/include/asm-s390/cache.h b/include/asm-s390/cache.h
index e20cdd9..cdf431b 100644
--- a/include/asm-s390/cache.h
+++ b/include/asm-s390/cache.h
@@ -16,4 +16,6 @@
 
 #define ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN	8
 
+#define __read_mostly __attribute__((__section__(".data.read_mostly")))
+
 #endif