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.
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <redacted>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jungseok Lee <redacted>
---
Changes since v1:
- move __read_mostly macro below #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
arch/arm64/include/asm/cache.h | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cache.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cache.h
index 88cc05b..bde4499 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();--
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