Re: [PATCH] Move some variables into the "most_readonly" section??

[Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> christoph <christoph@scalex86.org> wrote:
> 
>>On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I think readmostliness and alignment are mostly-unrelated concepts and
>>>should have separate tag thingies.  IOW,
>>>__cacheline_aligned_mostly_readonly goes away and to handle things like the
>>>cpu maps we do:
>>
>>Yup that makes the whole thing much more sane. Can we specify multiple 
>>attributes to a variable?
> 
> 
> I suppose so.
> 
> Compiling this:
> 
> int x   __attribute__((__aligned__(32)))
>         __attribute__((__section__(".data.mostly_readonly")));
> 

Can I just throw in something unrelated and not very constructive
and ask that we call it 'read_mostly' instead of mostly_readonly?

mostly_readonly kind of says to me that most items in the section
are read only, read_mostly says all the items are mostly only read.

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