[PATCH] ARM: cpuidle: declare cpuidle_ops __read_mostly

Jisheng Zhang jszhang at marvell.com
Wed Aug 10 01:49:57 PDT 2016


cpuidle_ops is initialized once by arm_cpuidle_read_ops() during
initialization, and thereafter is mostly read in arm_cpuidle_suspend()

The fact that it is mostly read and not written to makes it candidates
for __read_mostly declarations.

Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang at marvell.com>
---
 arch/arm/kernel/cpuidle.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/cpuidle.c b/arch/arm/kernel/cpuidle.c
index 7dccc96..762e0929 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/cpuidle.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/cpuidle.c
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ extern struct of_cpuidle_method __cpuidle_method_of_table[];
 static const struct of_cpuidle_method __cpuidle_method_of_table_sentinel
 	__used __section(__cpuidle_method_of_table_end);
 
-static struct cpuidle_ops cpuidle_ops[NR_CPUS];
+static struct cpuidle_ops cpuidle_ops[NR_CPUS] __read_mostly;
 
 /**
  * arm_cpuidle_simple_enter() - a wrapper to cpu_do_idle()
-- 
2.8.1




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