Commit daf87416 authored by Russell King's avatar Russell King

ARM: implement support for read-mostly sections

As our SMP implementation uses MESI protocols.  Grouping together data
which is mostly only read together means that we avoid unnecessary
cache line bouncing when this code shares a cache line with other data.

In other words, cache lines associated with read-mostly data are
expected to spend most of their time in shared state.
Signed-off-by: default avatarRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
parent 0b05da72
...@@ -23,4 +23,6 @@ ...@@ -23,4 +23,6 @@
#define ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN 8 #define ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN 8
#endif #endif
#define __read_mostly __attribute__((__section__(".data..read_mostly")))
#endif #endif
...@@ -167,6 +167,7 @@ SECTIONS ...@@ -167,6 +167,7 @@ SECTIONS
NOSAVE_DATA NOSAVE_DATA
CACHELINE_ALIGNED_DATA(32) CACHELINE_ALIGNED_DATA(32)
READ_MOSTLY_DATA(32)
/* /*
* The exception fixup table (might need resorting at runtime) * The exception fixup table (might need resorting at runtime)
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