From fce821c44244459592f22bec255e217795de4c02 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:44:46 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] x86: fix incorrect __read_mostly on _boot_cpu_pda

commit 26799a63110dcbe81291ea53178f6b4810d07424 upstream.

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>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/head64.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
index 9bfc4d72fb2..290cb546130 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 #include <asm/bios_ebda.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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