From: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:44:46 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: x86: fix incorrect __read_mostly on _boot_cpu_pda
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.29-rc1~536^2^2~1
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=26799a63110dcbe81291ea53178f6b4810d07424;p=pandora-kernel.git

x86: fix incorrect __read_mostly on _boot_cpu_pda

The pda rework (commit 3461b0af025251bbc6b3d56c821c6ac2de6f7209)
to remove static boot cpu pdas introduced a performance 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>
Acked-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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