From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jszhang@marvell.com (Jisheng Zhang) Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 15:19:16 +0800 Subject: [PATCH 0/3] arm64: put objects into proper sections Message-ID: <1470813559-2917-1-git-send-email-jszhang@marvell.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org This series tries to put objects into proper sections to avoid pontential unnecessary DDR traffics: patch1 puts alloc_vectors_page() into .init section. This is a clean up patch. patch2 puts vdso_pages, vdso_spec and vectors_page into read_mostly section, since they are read mostly in hot path. patch3 puts cpu_ops into read_mostly section, since it's read mostly int hot path such as arm_cpuidle_suspend(). Before this series: ffff000008d660f0 b undef_lock ffff000008d660f8 b vectors_page ffff000008d66100 b vdso_pages ffff000008d66108 b vdso_spec ffff000008d66148 B cpu_ops ffff000008d66348 b patch_lock After this series: ffff000008ca5b08 D static_key_initialized ffff000008ca5b10 d vectors_page ffff000008ca5b18 d vdso_pages ffff000008ca5b20 d vdso_spec ffff000008ca5b60 D cpu_ops ffff000008ca5d60 D elf_hwcap ffff000008ca5d68 D compat_elf_hwcap ffff000008ca5d6c D compat_elf_hwcap2 Although there's no obvious issue with current code, because undef_lock and patch_lock is rarely used, but the situation may change in the future, so let's move them into proper sections now. Jisheng Zhang (3): arm64: vdso: add __init section marker to alloc_vectors_page arm64: vdso: put read only/mostly objects into proper sections arm64: kernel: declare cpu_ops __read_mostly arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_ops.c | 2 +- arch/arm64/kernel/vdso.c | 31 +++++++++++++++---------------- 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) -- 2.8.1