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Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/cache.h | 14 |
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h index c4bd0e2c173c..772c784ba763 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h @@ -256,6 +256,7 @@ .rodata : AT(ADDR(.rodata) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \ VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__start_rodata) = .; \ *(.rodata) *(.rodata.*) \ + *(.data..ro_after_init) /* Read only after init */ \ *(__vermagic) /* Kernel version magic */ \ . = ALIGN(8); \ VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__start___tracepoints_ptrs) = .; \ diff --git a/include/linux/cache.h b/include/linux/cache.h index 17e7e82d2aa7..1be04f8c563a 100644 --- a/include/linux/cache.h +++ b/include/linux/cache.h @@ -12,10 +12,24 @@ #define SMP_CACHE_BYTES L1_CACHE_BYTES #endif +/* + * __read_mostly is used to keep rarely changing variables out of frequently + * updated cachelines. If an architecture doesn't support it, ignore the + * hint. + */ #ifndef __read_mostly #define __read_mostly #endif +/* + * __ro_after_init is used to mark things that are read-only after init (i.e. + * after mark_rodata_ro() has been called). These are effectively read-only, + * but may get written to during init, so can't live in .rodata (via "const"). + */ +#ifndef __ro_after_init +#define __ro_after_init __attribute__((__section__(".data..ro_after_init"))) +#endif + #ifndef ____cacheline_aligned #define ____cacheline_aligned __attribute__((__aligned__(SMP_CACHE_BYTES))) #endif |