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Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> wrote: > > This variable is rarely written to. Mark the variable accordingly > I dropped all John's timekeeping patches today - he's redoing everything. So I've reworked this against mainline. x86 actually has two cyc2ns_scale's. arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_hpet.c | 2 +- arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c | 2 +- arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c | 2 +- 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_hpet.c~mark-cyc2ns_scale-readmostly arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_hpet.c --- devel/arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_hpet.c~mark-cyc2ns_scale-readmostly 2006-03-17 21:34:19.000000000 -0800 +++ devel-akpm/arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_hpet.c 2006-03-17 21:34:19.000000000 -0800 @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ static seqlock_t monotonic_lock = SEQLOC * * -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 -puN arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c~mark-cyc2ns_scale-readmostly arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c --- devel/arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c~mark-cyc2ns_scale-readmostly 2006-03-17 21:34:19.000000000 -0800 +++ devel-akpm/arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c 2006-03-17 21:34:19.000000000 -0800 @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ late_initcall(start_lost_tick_compensati * * -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 -puN arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c~mark-cyc2ns_scale-readmostly arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c --- devel/arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c~mark-cyc2ns_scale-readmostly 2006-03-17 21:34:19.000000000 -0800 +++ devel-akpm/arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c 2006-03-17 21:34:19.000000000 -0800 @@ -477,7 +477,7 @@ static irqreturn_t timer_interrupt(int i 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) _ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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