[PATCH] x86: mark cyc2ns_scale readmostly

This variable is rarely written to.  Mark the variable accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_hpet.c b/arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_hpet.c
index be242723c339..17a6fe7166e7 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_hpet.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_hpet.c
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ static seqlock_t monotonic_lock = SEQLOCK_UNLOCKED;
  *
  *                      -johnstul@us.ibm.com "math is hard, lets go shopping!"
  */
-static unsigned long cyc2ns_scale;
+static unsigned long cyc2ns_scale __read_mostly;
 #define CYC2NS_SCALE_FACTOR 10 /* 2^10, carefully chosen */
 
 static inline void set_cyc2ns_scale(unsigned long cpu_khz)
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c b/arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c
index a7f5a2aceba2..5e41ee29c8cf 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ late_initcall(start_lost_tick_compensation);
  *
  *                      -johnstul@us.ibm.com "math is hard, lets go shopping!"
  */
-static unsigned long cyc2ns_scale; 
+static unsigned long cyc2ns_scale __read_mostly;
 #define CYC2NS_SCALE_FACTOR 10 /* 2^10, carefully chosen */
 
 static inline void set_cyc2ns_scale(unsigned long cpu_khz)