x86: move various CPU initialization objects into .cpuinit.rodata
Impact: debuggability and micro-optimization
Putting whatever is possible into the (final) .rodata section increases
the likelihood of catching memory corruption bugs early, and reduces
false cache line sharing.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <49B90961.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
index f47df59..7e4a459 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
@@ -502,7 +502,7 @@
}
#endif
-static struct cpu_dev amd_cpu_dev __cpuinitdata = {
+static const struct cpu_dev __cpuinitconst amd_cpu_dev = {
.c_vendor = "AMD",
.c_ident = { "AuthenticAMD" },
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32