Merge commit '63cc8c75156462d4b42cbdd76c293b7eee7ddbfe':

  "percpu: introduce DEFINE_PER_CPU_PAGE_ALIGNED() macro"

into x86/core

Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

2 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
index cb752ba72466..7440a0dceddb 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
@@ -385,6 +385,7 @@
         . = ALIGN(align);                                               \
         VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__per_cpu_start) = .;                            \
         .data.percpu  : AT(ADDR(.data.percpu) - LOAD_OFFSET) {          \
+                *(.data.percpu.page_aligned)                            \
                 *(.data.percpu)                                         \
                 *(.data.percpu.shared_aligned)                          \
         }                                                               \
diff --git a/include/linux/percpu.h b/include/linux/percpu.h
index fac3337547eb..9f2a3751873a 100644
--- a/include/linux/percpu.h
+++ b/include/linux/percpu.h
@@ -23,12 +23,19 @@
         __attribute__((__section__(SHARED_ALIGNED_SECTION)))            \
         PER_CPU_ATTRIBUTES __typeof__(type) per_cpu__##name             \
         ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp
+
+#define DEFINE_PER_CPU_PAGE_ALIGNED(type, name)                 \
+        __attribute__((__section__(".data.percpu.page_aligned")))       \
+        PER_CPU_ATTRIBUTES __typeof__(type) per_cpu__##name
 #else
 #define DEFINE_PER_CPU(type, name)                                      \
         PER_CPU_ATTRIBUTES __typeof__(type) per_cpu__##name
 
 #define DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED(type, name)                     \
         DEFINE_PER_CPU(type, name)
+
+#define DEFINE_PER_CPU_PAGE_ALIGNED(type, name)               \
+        DEFINE_PER_CPU(type, name)
 #endif
 
 #define EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(var) EXPORT_SYMBOL(per_cpu__##var)