linux-kernel - [PATCH v4 3/5] powerpc/smp: Add __ro_after

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Date:   Thu,  9 Nov 2023 11:19:31 +0530
From:   Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>
Cc:     linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
        Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Rohan McLure <rmclure@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Valentin Schneider <vschneid@...hat.com>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        "ndesaulniers@...gle.com" <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4 3/5] powerpc/smp: Add __ro_after_init attribute

There are some variables that are only updated at boot time.
So add __ro_after_init attribute to such variables

Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
Changelog:
v2 -> v3:
Use __ro_after_init instead of __read_mostly
Suggested by : Peter Zijlstra and Michael Ellerman

 arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
index 1dae4e9ba42d..65a6f988374a 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
@@ -77,10 +77,10 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, cpu_state) = { 0 };
 #endif
 
 struct task_struct *secondary_current;
-bool has_big_cores;
-bool coregroup_enabled;
-bool thread_group_shares_l2;
-bool thread_group_shares_l3;
+bool has_big_cores __ro_after_init;
+bool coregroup_enabled __ro_after_init;
+bool thread_group_shares_l2 __ro_after_init;
+bool thread_group_shares_l3 __ro_after_init;
 
 DEFINE_PER_CPU(cpumask_var_t, cpu_sibling_map);
 DEFINE_PER_CPU(cpumask_var_t, cpu_smallcore_map);
@@ -987,7 +987,7 @@ static int __init init_thread_group_cache_map(int cpu, int cache_property)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static bool shared_caches;
+static bool shared_caches __ro_after_init;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_SMT
 /* cpumask of CPUs with asymmetric SMT dependency */
-- 
2.31.1