[PATCH] Additions to .data.read_mostly section
Mark variables which are usually accessed for reads with __readmostly.
Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <alokk@calsoftinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/smpboot.c
index fa25e39..90aeccd 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -62,13 +62,13 @@
/* Number of siblings per CPU package */
int smp_num_siblings = 1;
/* Package ID of each logical CPU */
-u8 phys_proc_id[NR_CPUS] = { [0 ... NR_CPUS-1] = BAD_APICID };
-u8 cpu_core_id[NR_CPUS] = { [0 ... NR_CPUS-1] = BAD_APICID };
+u8 phys_proc_id[NR_CPUS] __read_mostly = { [0 ... NR_CPUS-1] = BAD_APICID };
+u8 cpu_core_id[NR_CPUS] __read_mostly = { [0 ... NR_CPUS-1] = BAD_APICID };
EXPORT_SYMBOL(phys_proc_id);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(cpu_core_id);
/* Bitmask of currently online CPUs */
-cpumask_t cpu_online_map;
+cpumask_t cpu_online_map __read_mostly;
EXPORT_SYMBOL(cpu_online_map);
@@ -88,8 +88,8 @@
/* Set when the idlers are all forked */
int smp_threads_ready;
-cpumask_t cpu_sibling_map[NR_CPUS] __cacheline_aligned;
-cpumask_t cpu_core_map[NR_CPUS] __cacheline_aligned;
+cpumask_t cpu_sibling_map[NR_CPUS] __read_mostly;
+cpumask_t cpu_core_map[NR_CPUS] __read_mostly;
EXPORT_SYMBOL(cpu_core_map);
/*