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[4/5] parisc: use new macro for .data.read_mostly section.

Message ID 1241135719-9286-5-git-send-email-tabbott@mit.edu (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
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Tim Abbott April 30, 2009, 11:55 p.m. UTC
.data.read_mostly should not need a separate output section; this
change moves it into the .data section.

I used alignment L1_CACHE_BYTES instead of 16 since the whole point is
for read-mostly data to have different cache lines than other stuff.

Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
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 arch/parisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S |    8 +-------
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/arch/parisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/parisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index c8a528d..3176407 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -94,19 +94,13 @@  SECTIONS
 		__stop___unwind = .;
 	}
 
-	/* rarely changed data like cpu maps */
-	. = ALIGN(16);
-	.data.read_mostly : {
-		*(.data.read_mostly)
-	}
-
-	. = ALIGN(L1_CACHE_BYTES);
 	/* Data */
 	.data : {
 		/* assembler code expects init_task to be 16k aligned */
 		INIT_TASK_DATA(16384)
 		NOSAVE_DATA
 		CACHELINE_ALIGNED_DATA(L1_CACHE_BYTES)
+		READ_MOSTLY_DATA(L1_CACHE_BYTES)
 		DATA_DATA
 		CONSTRUCTORS
 	}