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authorJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>2009-03-12 08:08:49 -0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-03-12 08:13:07 -0400
commit02dde8b45c5460794b9052d7c12939fe3eb63c2c (patch)
tree5c24bd6411e3fb704c81694f8f63e8bd963848ad /arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpu.h
parent821508d4ef7920283b960057903505fed609fd16 (diff)
x86: move various CPU initialization objects into .cpuinit.rodata
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpu.h')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpu.h11
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpu.h b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpu.h
index de4094a39210..9469ecb5aeb8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpu.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpu.h
@@ -5,15 +5,15 @@
5struct cpu_model_info { 5struct cpu_model_info {
6 int vendor; 6 int vendor;
7 int family; 7 int family;
8 char *model_names[16]; 8 const char *model_names[16];
9}; 9};
10 10
11/* attempt to consolidate cpu attributes */ 11/* attempt to consolidate cpu attributes */
12struct cpu_dev { 12struct cpu_dev {
13 char * c_vendor; 13 const char * c_vendor;
14 14
15 /* some have two possibilities for cpuid string */ 15 /* some have two possibilities for cpuid string */
16 char * c_ident[2]; 16 const char * c_ident[2];
17 17
18 struct cpu_model_info c_models[4]; 18 struct cpu_model_info c_models[4];
19 19
@@ -25,11 +25,12 @@ struct cpu_dev {
25}; 25};
26 26
27#define cpu_dev_register(cpu_devX) \ 27#define cpu_dev_register(cpu_devX) \
28 static struct cpu_dev *__cpu_dev_##cpu_devX __used \ 28 static const struct cpu_dev *const __cpu_dev_##cpu_devX __used \
29 __attribute__((__section__(".x86_cpu_dev.init"))) = \ 29 __attribute__((__section__(".x86_cpu_dev.init"))) = \
30 &cpu_devX; 30 &cpu_devX;
31 31
32extern struct cpu_dev *__x86_cpu_dev_start[], *__x86_cpu_dev_end[]; 32extern const struct cpu_dev *const __x86_cpu_dev_start[],
33 *const __x86_cpu_dev_end[];
33 34
34extern void display_cacheinfo(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c); 35extern void display_cacheinfo(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c);
35 36