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authorMark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>2016-05-03 15:09:56 +0100
committerMark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>2016-05-03 15:09:56 +0100
commitbc0868c62bb13834b20a864f684cced1f84a2412 (patch)
tree2c382dcd24ac95f4dbf53d238d3161d6171d8a4b /include/linux/cache.h
parentfd786fb0276a22155058018f76eb4c665d37f170 (diff)
parent8c12ad8e916ee0477f7a0a0f00b0a87b9a21ebf7 (diff)
Merge branch 'for-4.7/pwm-regulator' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/thierry.reding/linux-pwm into regulator-pwm
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diff --git a/include/linux/cache.h b/include/linux/cache.h
index 17e7e82d2aa7..1be04f8c563a 100644
--- a/include/linux/cache.h
+++ b/include/linux/cache.h
@@ -12,10 +12,24 @@
#define SMP_CACHE_BYTES L1_CACHE_BYTES
#endif
+/*
+ * __read_mostly is used to keep rarely changing variables out of frequently
+ * updated cachelines. If an architecture doesn't support it, ignore the
+ * hint.
+ */
#ifndef __read_mostly
#define __read_mostly
#endif
+/*
+ * __ro_after_init is used to mark things that are read-only after init (i.e.
+ * after mark_rodata_ro() has been called). These are effectively read-only,
+ * but may get written to during init, so can't live in .rodata (via "const").
+ */
+#ifndef __ro_after_init
+#define __ro_after_init __attribute__((__section__(".data..ro_after_init")))
+#endif
+
#ifndef ____cacheline_aligned
#define ____cacheline_aligned __attribute__((__aligned__(SMP_CACHE_BYTES)))
#endif