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Commit 4fa72523 authored by Luis Chamberlain's avatar Luis Chamberlain Committed by Linus Torvalds
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include/linux/cache.h: expand documentation over __read_mostly



__read_mostly can easily be misused by folks, its not meant for just
read-only data.  There are performance reasons for using it, but we also
don't provide any guidance about its use.  Provide a bit more guidance
over its use.

Signed-off-by: default avatarLuis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: default avatarRafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200507161424.2584-1-mcgrof@kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 2a71e81d
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