[PATCH] x86: mark cyc2ns_scale readmostly

This variable is rarely written to.  Mark the variable accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_hpet.c b/arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_hpet.c
index be242723c33988fc2cf8222ea20430554e775c89..17a6fe7166e7b48c2a2956a440918131e470f712 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_hpet.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_hpet.c
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ static seqlock_t monotonic_lock = SEQLOCK_UNLOCKED;
  *
  *                     -johnstul@us.ibm.com "math is hard, lets go shopping!"
  */
-static unsigned long cyc2ns_scale;
+static unsigned long cyc2ns_scale __read_mostly;
 #define CYC2NS_SCALE_FACTOR 10 /* 2^10, carefully chosen */
 
 static inline void set_cyc2ns_scale(unsigned long cpu_khz)

diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c b/arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c
index a7f5a2aceba2d335402a48168d749f2736dadf41..5e41ee29c8cff1dff22ffd7142b7dfc96f9e3594 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ late_initcall(start_lost_tick_compensation);
  *
  *                     -johnstul@us.ibm.com "math is hard, lets go shopping!"
  */
-static unsigned long cyc2ns_scale; 
+static unsigned long cyc2ns_scale __read_mostly;
 #define CYC2NS_SCALE_FACTOR 10 /* 2^10, carefully chosen */
 
 static inline void set_cyc2ns_scale(unsigned long cpu_khz)

diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c
index 3080f84bf7b76f8f68274d84c5af15d705afc625..ee5ce3d3cbc3e8c50c2bdbaba99070e3e64d9957 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c
@@ -477,7 +477,7 @@ static irqreturn_t timer_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_id, struct pt_regs *regs)
        return IRQ_HANDLED;
 }
 
-static unsigned int cyc2ns_scale;
+static unsigned int cyc2ns_scale __read_mostly;
 #define CYC2NS_SCALE_FACTOR 10 /* 2^10, carefully chosen */
 
 static inline void set_cyc2ns_scale(unsigned long cpu_khz)