android_kernel_samsung_msm8976/arch/mips
Fenghua Yu 5fb7dc37dc define new percpu interface for shared data
per cpu data section contains two types of data.  One set which is
exclusively accessed by the local cpu and the other set which is per cpu,
but also shared by remote cpus.  In the current kernel, these two sets are
not clearely separated out.  This can potentially cause the same data
cacheline shared between the two sets of data, which will result in
unnecessary bouncing of the cacheline between cpus.

One way to fix the problem is to cacheline align the remotely accessed per
cpu data, both at the beginning and at the end.  Because of the padding at
both ends, this will likely cause some memory wastage and also the
interface to achieve this is not clean.

This patch:

Moves the remotely accessed per cpu data (which is currently marked
as ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp) into a different section, where all the data
elements are cacheline aligned. And as such, this differentiates the local
only data and remotely accessed data cleanly.

Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19 10:04:44 -07:00
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arc
au1000
basler/excite serial: add early_serial_setup() back to header file 2007-07-18 08:38:22 -07:00
boot
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gt64120 serial: add early_serial_setup() back to header file 2007-07-18 08:38:22 -07:00
jazz
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kernel define new percpu interface for shared data 2007-07-19 10:04:44 -07:00
lemote/lm2e
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math-emu [MIPS] Add some __user tags 2007-07-13 17:40:01 +01:00
mips-boards serial: add early_serial_setup() back to header file 2007-07-18 08:38:22 -07:00
mipssim serial: add early_serial_setup() back to header file 2007-07-18 08:38:22 -07:00
mm mm: fault feedback #2 2007-07-19 10:04:41 -07:00
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pmc-sierra serial: add early_serial_setup() back to header file 2007-07-18 08:38:22 -07:00
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sibyte sb1250-duart.c: SB1250 DUART serial support 2007-07-17 10:23:03 -07:00
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tx4927 [MIPS] Kill CONFIG_TX4927BUG_WORKAROUND 2007-07-13 17:40:00 +01:00
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