Merge branch 'linux-2.6' into powerpc-next

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/percpu.h b/include/linux/percpu.h
index d746a2abb322..4cdd393e71e1 100644
--- a/include/linux/percpu.h
+++ b/include/linux/percpu.h
@@ -13,8 +13,14 @@
         __attribute__((__section__(".data.percpu")))                    \
         PER_CPU_ATTRIBUTES __typeof__(type) per_cpu__##name
 
+#ifdef MODULE
+#define SHARED_ALIGNED_SECTION ".data.percpu"
+#else
+#define SHARED_ALIGNED_SECTION ".data.percpu.shared_aligned"
+#endif
+
 #define DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED(type, name)                       \
-        __attribute__((__section__(".data.percpu.shared_aligned")))     \
+        __attribute__((__section__(SHARED_ALIGNED_SECTION)))            \
         PER_CPU_ATTRIBUTES __typeof__(type) per_cpu__##name             \
         ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp
 #else