Re: RFC: remove __read_mostly

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 01:15:56PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > So...  once we've moved all read-mostly variables into __read_mostly, what
> > is left behind in bss?
> 
> I had already covered that in the next paragraph which you conveniently
> snipped :)
> 
> Anyways I suspect the right solution for that would be more classes
> of variables for even better grouping.
>...

Is there any way to tell gcc that it's still allowed to omit the 
variable when it's able to prove it's read-only?

My basic fear with all the __read_mostly, immediate values,... stuff is 
that it might interfere with gcc optimizations.

> -Andi

cu
Adrian

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