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: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/cache.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/cache.h
index 9d61220..75fe66b 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/cache.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/cache.h
@@ -23,4 +23,6 @@
#define ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN 8
#endif
+#define __read_mostly __attribute__((__section__(".data..read_mostly")))
+
#endif