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authorAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>2010-01-12 01:50:14 +0100
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2010-02-03 07:39:48 +0100
commit5be3492f972b73051ead7ecbac6fb9efd1e8e0ec (patch)
treec0c66a38665af53673792246f21198c119e8c7d4 /arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
parentpowerpc: Replace per_cpu(, smp_processor_id()) with __get_cpu_var() (diff)
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powerpc: Mark some variables in the page fault path __read_mostly
Using perf to trace L1 dcache misses and dumping data addresses I found a few variables taking a lot of misses. Since they are almost never written, they should go into the __read_mostly section. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c14
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
index d069ff8a7e03..4588d1eb18d2 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
@@ -60,13 +60,13 @@
#endif
#if defined(CONFIG_DEBUGGER) || defined(CONFIG_KEXEC)
-int (*__debugger)(struct pt_regs *regs);
-int (*__debugger_ipi)(struct pt_regs *regs);
-int (*__debugger_bpt)(struct pt_regs *regs);
-int (*__debugger_sstep)(struct pt_regs *regs);
-int (*__debugger_iabr_match)(struct pt_regs *regs);
-int (*__debugger_dabr_match)(struct pt_regs *regs);
-int (*__debugger_fault_handler)(struct pt_regs *regs);
+int (*__debugger)(struct pt_regs *regs) __read_mostly;
+int (*__debugger_ipi)(struct pt_regs *regs) __read_mostly;
+int (*__debugger_bpt)(struct pt_regs *regs) __read_mostly;
+int (*__debugger_sstep)(struct pt_regs *regs) __read_mostly;
+int (*__debugger_iabr_match)(struct pt_regs *regs) __read_mostly;
+int (*__debugger_dabr_match)(struct pt_regs *regs) __read_mostly;
+int (*__debugger_fault_handler)(struct pt_regs *regs) __read_mostly;
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__debugger);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__debugger_ipi);