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arm64: Implement support for read-mostly sections

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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>
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Jungseok Lee 2014-12-02 17:49:24 +00:00 committed by Will Deacon
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arch/arm64/include/asm/cache.h
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@ -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();