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x86: move various CPU initialization objects into .cpuinit.rodata

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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>
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Jan Beulich
2009-03-12 12:08:49 +00:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 821508d4ef
commit 02dde8b45c
12 changed files with 36 additions and 35 deletions
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arch/x86/kernel/cpu/addon_cpuid_features.c
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@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ void __cpuinit init_scattered_cpuid_features(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
u32 regs[4];
const struct cpuid_bit *cb;
static const struct cpuid_bit cpuid_bits[] = {
static const struct cpuid_bit __cpuinitconst cpuid_bits[] = {
{ X86_FEATURE_IDA, CR_EAX, 1, 0x00000006 },
{ 0, 0, 0, 0 }
};