Merge branch 'master' into for-linus

Conflicts:
	include/linux/percpu.h
	mm/percpu.c

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/percpu-defs.h b/include/linux/percpu-defs.h
index ce2dc655cd1..018db9a62ff 100644
--- a/include/linux/percpu-defs.h
+++ b/include/linux/percpu-defs.h
@@ -139,6 +139,27 @@
 	__aligned(PAGE_SIZE)
 
 /*
+ * Declaration/definition used for per-CPU variables that must be read mostly.
+ */
+#define DECLARE_PER_CPU_READ_MOSTLY(type, name)			\
+	DECLARE_PER_CPU_SECTION(type, name, "..readmostly")
+
+#define DEFINE_PER_CPU_READ_MOSTLY(type, name)				\
+	DEFINE_PER_CPU_SECTION(type, name, "..readmostly")
+
+/*
+ * Declaration/definition used for large per-CPU variables that must be
+ * aligned to something larger than the pagesize.
+ */
+#define DECLARE_PER_CPU_MULTIPAGE_ALIGNED(type, name, size)		\
+	DECLARE_PER_CPU_SECTION(type, name, "..page_aligned")		\
+	__aligned(size)
+
+#define DEFINE_PER_CPU_MULTIPAGE_ALIGNED(type, name, size)		\
+	DEFINE_PER_CPU_SECTION(type, name, "..page_aligned")		\
+	__aligned(size)
+
+/*
  * Intermodule exports for per-CPU variables.  sparse forgets about
  * address space across EXPORT_SYMBOL(), change EXPORT_SYMBOL() to
  * noop if __CHECKER__.