Re: [PATCH v4 2/8] init.h: add __read_mostly to early_param_on_off()

[Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 02:44:21PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com>

So this one is missing a commit message too but we need to talk about
this. Why are we adding __read_mostly in the macro? This would put every
param declared this way into __section__(".data..read_mostly") and I'm
not really convinced that is needed.

Those setup params get accessed a couple of times only during boot, in
non-critical paths so we don't really care.

If you care about pat_enabled being read a lot, you could do:

int __read_mostly pat_enabled;

only for it.

But for every param declared this way? I'm not sure we want that...

> Cc: Andy Walls <awalls@md.metrocast.net>
> Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: x86@kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/init.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/init.h b/include/linux/init.h
> index 21b6d76..a0385cc 100644
> --- a/include/linux/init.h
> +++ b/include/linux/init.h
> @@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ struct obs_kernel_param {
>  
>  #define early_param_on_off(str_on, str_off, var, config)		\
>  									\
> -	int var = IS_ENABLED(config);					\
> +	int __read_mostly var = IS_ENABLED(config);			\
>  									\
>  	static int __init parse_##var##_on(char *arg)			\
>  	{								\

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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