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linux/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
Christoph Lameter 6c036527a6 [PATCH] mostly_read data section
Add a new section called ".data.read_mostly" for data items that are read
frequently and rarely written to like cpumaps etc.

If these maps are placed in the .data section then these frequenly read
items may end up in cachelines with data is is frequently updated.  In that
case all processors in an SMP system must needlessly reload the cachelines
again and again containing elements of those frequently used variables.

The ability to share these cachelines will allow each cpu in an SMP system
to keep local copies of those shared cachelines thereby optimizing
performance.

Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <alokk@calsoftinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Shobhit Dayal <shobhit@calsoftinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <christoph@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-07 18:23:46 -07:00

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/* ld script to make i386 Linux kernel
* Written by Martin Mares <mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>;
*/
#define LOAD_OFFSET __PAGE_OFFSET
#include <asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h>
#include <asm/thread_info.h>
#include <asm/page.h>
OUTPUT_FORMAT("elf32-i386", "elf32-i386", "elf32-i386")
OUTPUT_ARCH(i386)
ENTRY(phys_startup_32)
jiffies = jiffies_64;
SECTIONS
{
. = __KERNEL_START;
phys_startup_32 = startup_32 - LOAD_OFFSET;
/* read-only */
_text = .; /* Text and read-only data */
.text : AT(ADDR(.text) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
*(.text)
SCHED_TEXT
LOCK_TEXT
*(.fixup)
*(.gnu.warning)
} = 0x9090
_etext = .; /* End of text section */
. = ALIGN(16); /* Exception table */
__start___ex_table = .;
__ex_table : AT(ADDR(__ex_table) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(__ex_table) }
__stop___ex_table = .;
RODATA
/* writeable */
.data : AT(ADDR(.data) - LOAD_OFFSET) { /* Data */
*(.data)
CONSTRUCTORS
}
. = ALIGN(4096);
__nosave_begin = .;
.data_nosave : AT(ADDR(.data_nosave) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.data.nosave) }
. = ALIGN(4096);
__nosave_end = .;
. = ALIGN(4096);
.data.page_aligned : AT(ADDR(.data.page_aligned) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
*(.data.idt)
}
. = ALIGN(32);
.data.cacheline_aligned : AT(ADDR(.data.cacheline_aligned) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
*(.data.cacheline_aligned)
}
/* rarely changed data like cpu maps */
. = ALIGN(32);
.data.read_mostly : AT(ADDR(.data.read_mostly) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.data.read_mostly) }
_edata = .; /* End of data section */
. = ALIGN(THREAD_SIZE); /* init_task */
.data.init_task : AT(ADDR(.data.init_task) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
*(.data.init_task)
}
/* will be freed after init */
. = ALIGN(4096); /* Init code and data */
__init_begin = .;
.init.text : AT(ADDR(.init.text) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
_sinittext = .;
*(.init.text)
_einittext = .;
}
.init.data : AT(ADDR(.init.data) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.init.data) }
. = ALIGN(16);
__setup_start = .;
.init.setup : AT(ADDR(.init.setup) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.init.setup) }
__setup_end = .;
__initcall_start = .;
.initcall.init : AT(ADDR(.initcall.init) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
*(.initcall1.init)
*(.initcall2.init)
*(.initcall3.init)
*(.initcall4.init)
*(.initcall5.init)
*(.initcall6.init)
*(.initcall7.init)
}
__initcall_end = .;
__con_initcall_start = .;
.con_initcall.init : AT(ADDR(.con_initcall.init) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
*(.con_initcall.init)
}
__con_initcall_end = .;
SECURITY_INIT
. = ALIGN(4);
__alt_instructions = .;
.altinstructions : AT(ADDR(.altinstructions) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
*(.altinstructions)
}
__alt_instructions_end = .;
.altinstr_replacement : AT(ADDR(.altinstr_replacement) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
*(.altinstr_replacement)
}
/* .exit.text is discard at runtime, not link time, to deal with references
from .altinstructions and .eh_frame */
.exit.text : AT(ADDR(.exit.text) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.exit.text) }
.exit.data : AT(ADDR(.exit.data) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.exit.data) }
. = ALIGN(4096);
__initramfs_start = .;
.init.ramfs : AT(ADDR(.init.ramfs) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.init.ramfs) }
__initramfs_end = .;
. = ALIGN(32);
__per_cpu_start = .;
.data.percpu : AT(ADDR(.data.percpu) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.data.percpu) }
__per_cpu_end = .;
. = ALIGN(4096);
__init_end = .;
/* freed after init ends here */
__bss_start = .; /* BSS */
.bss.page_aligned : AT(ADDR(.bss.page_aligned) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
*(.bss.page_aligned)
}
.bss : AT(ADDR(.bss) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
*(.bss)
}
. = ALIGN(4);
__bss_stop = .;
_end = . ;
/* This is where the kernel creates the early boot page tables */
. = ALIGN(4096);
pg0 = .;
/* Sections to be discarded */
/DISCARD/ : {
*(.exitcall.exit)
}
/* Stabs debugging sections. */
.stab 0 : { *(.stab) }
.stabstr 0 : { *(.stabstr) }
.stab.excl 0 : { *(.stab.excl) }
.stab.exclstr 0 : { *(.stab.exclstr) }
.stab.index 0 : { *(.stab.index) }
.stab.indexstr 0 : { *(.stab.indexstr) }
.comment 0 : { *(.comment) }
}