On 22.12.2023 10:39, Oleksii wrote:
> On Tue, 2023-08-08 at 12:32 +0200, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> On 08.08.2023 12:18, Andrew Cooper wrote:
>>> On 08/08/2023 10:46 am, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> There's no need for every arch to define its own identical copy.
>>>> If down
>>>> the road an arch needs to customize it, we can add #ifndef around
>>>> the
>>>> common #define.
>>>>
>>>> To be on the safe side build-breakage-wise, change a couple of
>>>> #include
>>>> <asm/cache.h> to the xen/ equivalent.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <[email protected]>
>>>
>>> Could we find a better place to put this?
>>>
>>> __read_mostly is just a section.  It's relationship to the cache is
>>> only
>>> microarchitectural, and is not the same kind of information as the
>>> rest
>>> of cache.h
>>>
>>> __ro_after_init is only here because __read_mostly is here, but has
>>> absolutely nothing to do with caches whatsoever.
>>>
>>> If we're cleaning them up, they ought to live elsewhere.
>>
>> I would be considering init.h (for having most other __section()
>> uses,
>> and for also needing __read_mostly), but that's not a great place to
>> put these either. In fact I see less connection there than for
>> cache.h.
>> So the primary need is a good suggestion (I'm hesitant to suggest to
>> introduce section.h just for this).
> Andrew sent some suggestions here:
> https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/[email protected]/
> 
> Will that work for you?

I still need to properly look at the suggested options.

Jan

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