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Subject[patch] x86: Fix incorrect __read_mostly on _boot_cpu_pda
The pda rework (commit 3461b0af025251bbc6b3d56c821c6ac2de6f7209)
to remove static boot cpu pdas introduced a bug. _boot_cpu_pda is the
actual pda used by the boot cpu and is definitely not "__read_mostly" and
ended up polluting the read mostly section with writes. This bug caused
regression of about 8-10% on certain syscall intensive workloads.

Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>

Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c 2008-12-30 15:28:08.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c 2008-12-31 10:36:21.000000000 -0800
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
#include <asm/trampoline.h>

/* boot cpu pda */
-static struct x8664_pda _boot_cpu_pda __read_mostly;
+static struct x8664_pda _boot_cpu_pda;

#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
/*

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