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| author | Jungseok Lee <jungseoklee85@gmail.com> | 2014-12-02 17:49:24 +0000 |
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| committer | Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> | 2014-12-03 10:19:35 +0000 |
| commit | e4f88d833bec29b8e6fadc1b2488f0c6370935e1 (patch) | |
| tree | e4062286dd04734147b5901d3d1e86bd7cacdb1c /arch/arm64 | |
| parent | a2d25a5391ca219f196f9fee7b535c40d201c6bf (diff) | |
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arm64: Implement support for read-mostly sections
As putting data which is read mostly together, we can avoid
unnecessary cache line bouncing.
Other architectures, such as ARM and x86, adopted the same idea.
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jungseok Lee <jungseoklee85@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm64')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arm64/include/asm/cache.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cache.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cache.h index 88cc05b5f3ac..bde449936e2f 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cache.h +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cache.h @@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__ +#define __read_mostly __attribute__((__section__(".data..read_mostly"))) + static inline int cache_line_size(void) { u32 cwg = cache_type_cwg(); |