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core: fix typo in percpu read_mostly section

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This fixes a typo that named the read_mostly section of percpu as
readmostly. It works fine with SMP because the linker script specifies
.data..percpu..readmostly. However, UP kernel builds don't have percpu
sections defined and the non-percpu version of the section is called
data..read_mostly, so .data..readmostly will float around and may break
things unexpectedly.

Looking at the original change that introduced data..percpu..readmostly
(commit c957ef2c59), it looks like this
was the original intention.

Tested: Built UP kernel and confirmed the sections got merged.

- Before the patch:
$ objdump -h vmlinux.o  | grep '\.data\.\.read.*mostly'
38 .data..read_mostly 00004418  0000000000000000  0000000000000000  00431ac0  2**6
50 .data..readmostly 00000014  0000000000000000  0000000000000000  00444000  2**3

- After the patch:
$ objdump -h vmlinux.o  | grep '\.data\.\.read.*mostly'
38 .data..read_mostly 00004438  0000000000000000  0000000000000000  00431ac0  2**6

Signed-off-by: Zhengyu He <hzy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Filipe Brandenburger <filbranden@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Zhengyu He 2014-07-01 12:11:47 -07:00 committed by Tejun Heo
parent ebe06187bf
commit 330d282216
2 changed files with 3 additions and 3 deletions
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include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
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@ -693,7 +693,7 @@
. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); \
*(.data..percpu..page_aligned) \
. = ALIGN(cacheline); \
*(.data..percpu..readmostly) \
*(.data..percpu..read_mostly) \
. = ALIGN(cacheline); \
*(.data..percpu) \
*(.data..percpu..shared_aligned) \

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include/linux/percpu-defs.h
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@ -146,10 +146,10 @@
* Declaration/definition used for per-CPU variables that must be read mostly.
*/
#define DECLARE_PER_CPU_READ_MOSTLY(type, name) \
DECLARE_PER_CPU_SECTION(type, name, "..readmostly")
DECLARE_PER_CPU_SECTION(type, name, "..read_mostly")
#define DEFINE_PER_CPU_READ_MOSTLY(type, name) \
DEFINE_PER_CPU_SECTION(type, name, "..readmostly")
DEFINE_PER_CPU_SECTION(type, name, "..read_mostly")
/*
* Intermodule exports for per-CPU variables. sparse forgets about