[PATCH] x86_64: bring back __read_mostly support to linux-2.6.17-rc2

It seems latest kernel has a wrong/missing __read_mostly implementation
for x86_64

__read_mostly macro should be declared outside of #if CONFIG_X86_VSMP block

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

diff --git a/include/asm-x86_64/cache.h b/include/asm-x86_64/cache.h
index c8043a1..f8dff1c 100644 (file)
--- a/include/asm-x86_64/cache.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86_64/cache.h
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@
        __attribute__((__section__(".data.page_aligned")))
 #endif
 
-#define __read_mostly __attribute__((__section__(".data.read_mostly")))
-
 #endif
 
+#define __read_mostly __attribute__((__section__(".data.read_mostly")))
+
 #endif