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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/intel.c
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@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ static unsigned int __cpuinit intel_size_cache(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c, unsigned i
}
#endif
static struct cpu_dev intel_cpu_dev __cpuinitdata = {
static const struct cpu_dev __cpuinitconst intel_cpu_dev = {
.c_vendor = "Intel",
.c_ident = { "GenuineIntel" },
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32