From: Zhengyu He <h...@google.com>
This fixes a typo that named the read_mostly section of percpu as
readmostly. It works fine with SMP because the linker script specifies
.data..percpu..readmostly. However, UP kernel builds don't have percpu
sections defined and the non-percpu version of the section is called
data..read_mostly, so .data..readmostly will float around and may break
things unexpectedly.
Looking at the original change that introduced data..percpu..readmostly
(commit c957ef2c59e952803766ddc22e89981ab534606f), it looks like this
was the original intention.
Tested: Built UP kernel and confirmed the sections got merged.
- Before the patch:
$ objdump -h vmlinux.o | grep '\.data\.\.read.*mostly'
38 .data..read_mostly 00004418 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00431ac0
2**6
50 .data..readmostly 00000014 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00444000
2**3
- After the patch:
$ objdump -h vmlinux.o | grep '\.data\.\.read.*mostly'
38 .data..read_mostly 00004438 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00431ac0
2**6
Signed-off-by: Zhengyu He <h...@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Filipe Brandenburger <filbran...@google.com>
---
include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 2 +-
include/linux/percpu-defs.h | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
index 471ba48c7ae4..c1c0b0cf39b4 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
@@ -693,7 +693,7 @@
. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); \
*(.data..percpu..page_aligned) \
. = ALIGN(cacheline); \
- *(.data..percpu..readmostly) \
+ *(.data..percpu..read_mostly) \
. = ALIGN(cacheline); \
*(.data..percpu) \
*(.data..percpu..shared_aligned) \
diff --git a/include/linux/percpu-defs.h b/include/linux/percpu-defs.h
index a5fc7d01aad6..dec01d6c3f80 100644
--- a/include/linux/percpu-defs.h
+++ b/include/linux/percpu-defs.h
@@ -146,10 +146,10 @@
* 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")
+ DECLARE_PER_CPU_SECTION(type, name, "..read_mostly")
#define DEFINE_PER_CPU_READ_MOSTLY(type, name) \
- DEFINE_PER_CPU_SECTION(type, name, "..readmostly")
+ DEFINE_PER_CPU_SECTION(type, name, "..read_mostly")
/*
* Intermodule exports for per-CPU variables. sparse forgets about
--
2.0.0.526.g5318336
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