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arm64: Implement support for read-mostly sections

As putting data which is read mostly together, we can avoid
unnecessary cache line bouncing.

Other architectures, such as ARM and x86, adopted the same idea.

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jungseok Lee <jungseoklee85@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Jungseok Lee 10 years ago
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arch/arm64/include/asm/cache.h

@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@
 
 #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
 
+#define __read_mostly __attribute__((__section__(".data..read_mostly")))
+
 static inline int cache_line_size(void)
 {
 	u32 cwg = cache_type_cwg();