Merge commit 'linux-2.6/master' (early part) into oprofile/core

This branch depends on these apic patches:

      apic, x86: Use BIOS settings for IBS and MCE threshold interrupt LVT offsets
      apic, x86: Check if EILVT APIC registers are available (AMD only)

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/percpu-defs.h b/include/linux/percpu-defs.h
index ce2dc655cd1d..27ef6b190ea6 100644
--- a/include/linux/percpu-defs.h
+++ b/include/linux/percpu-defs.h
@@ -139,6 +139,15 @@
         __aligned(PAGE_SIZE)
 
 /*
+ * Declaration/definition used for per-CPU variables that must be read mostly.
+ */
+#define DECLARE_PER_CPU_READ_MOSTLY(type, name)                 \
+        DECLARE_PER_CPU_SECTION(type, name, "..readmostly")
+
+#define DEFINE_PER_CPU_READ_MOSTLY(type, name)                          \
+        DEFINE_PER_CPU_SECTION(type, name, "..readmostly")
+
+/*
  * Intermodule exports for per-CPU variables.  sparse forgets about
  * address space across EXPORT_SYMBOL(), change EXPORT_SYMBOL() to
  * noop if __CHECKER__.