Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Jun 2005 10:18:34 +1000 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Move some variables into the "most_readonly" section?? |
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Andrew Morton wrote: > christoph <christoph@scalex86.org> wrote: > >>On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: >> >> >>>I think readmostliness and alignment are mostly-unrelated concepts and >>>should have separate tag thingies. IOW, >>>__cacheline_aligned_mostly_readonly goes away and to handle things like the >>>cpu maps we do: >> >>Yup that makes the whole thing much more sane. Can we specify multiple >>attributes to a variable? > > > I suppose so. > > Compiling this: > > int x __attribute__((__aligned__(32))) > __attribute__((__section__(".data.mostly_readonly"))); >
Can I just throw in something unrelated and not very constructive and ask that we call it 'read_mostly' instead of mostly_readonly?
mostly_readonly kind of says to me that most items in the section are read only, read_mostly says all the items are mostly only read.
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