Commit c957ef2c59e952803766ddc22e89981ab534606f that just went into Linus' tree has a bug - only one of hunks was modified (.readmostly moved after .page_aligned). >commit c957ef2c59e952803766ddc22e89981ab534606f >Author: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@xxxxxxxxx> >Date: Wed Oct 20 11:07:02 2010 +0800 > > percpu: Introduce a read-mostly percpu API > > Add a new readmostly percpu section and API. This can be used to > avoid dirtying data lines which are generally not written to, which is > especially important for data which may be accessed by processors > other than the one for which the percpu area belongs to. > > [ hpa: moved it *after* the page-aligned section, for obvious > reasons. ] > > Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@xxxxxxxxx> > LKML-Reference: <1287544022.4571.7.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h >index 8a92a17..d7e7b21 100644 >--- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h >+++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h >@@ -677,7 +677,9 @@ > - LOAD_OFFSET) { \ > VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__per_cpu_start) = .; \ > *(.data..percpu..first) \ >+ . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); \ > *(.data..percpu..page_aligned) \ >+ *(.data..percpu..readmostly) \ > *(.data..percpu) \ > *(.data..percpu..shared_aligned) \ > VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__per_cpu_end) = .; \ >@@ -703,6 +705,8 @@ > VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__per_cpu_load) = .; \ > VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__per_cpu_start) = .; \ > *(.data..percpu..first) \ >+ . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); \ >+ *(.data..percpu..readmostly) \ > *(.data..percpu..page_aligned) \ Here. > *(.data..percpu) \ > *(.data..percpu..shared_aligned) \ [...] Best Regards, Michał Mirosław -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html