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/cpu.h b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpu.h
index de4094a..9469ecb 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpu.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpu.h
@@ -5,15 +5,15 @@
struct cpu_model_info {
int vendor;
int family;
- char *model_names[16];
+ const char *model_names[16];
};
/* attempt to consolidate cpu attributes */
struct cpu_dev {
- char * c_vendor;
+ const char * c_vendor;
/* some have two possibilities for cpuid string */
- char * c_ident[2];
+ const char * c_ident[2];
struct cpu_model_info c_models[4];
@@ -25,11 +25,12 @@
};
#define cpu_dev_register(cpu_devX) \
- static struct cpu_dev *__cpu_dev_##cpu_devX __used \
+ static const struct cpu_dev *const __cpu_dev_##cpu_devX __used \
__attribute__((__section__(".x86_cpu_dev.init"))) = \
&cpu_devX;
-extern struct cpu_dev *__x86_cpu_dev_start[], *__x86_cpu_dev_end[];
+extern const struct cpu_dev *const __x86_cpu_dev_start[],
+ *const __x86_cpu_dev_end[];
extern void display_cacheinfo(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c);