diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index a0e9b8fe1fe4..1924b5a3bb85 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: f5b35d0b16a08e6c1e7c8a41fa87ad10cf9aefa4
+refs/heads/master: 1befdd5536e1500371f7f884d0f0ae528a519333
diff --git a/trunk/arch/mips/include/asm/cache.h b/trunk/arch/mips/include/asm/cache.h
index 37f175c42bb5..650ac9ba734c 100644
--- a/trunk/arch/mips/include/asm/cache.h
+++ b/trunk/arch/mips/include/asm/cache.h
@@ -17,4 +17,6 @@
 #define SMP_CACHE_SHIFT		L1_CACHE_SHIFT
 #define SMP_CACHE_BYTES		L1_CACHE_BYTES
 
+#define __read_mostly __attribute__((__section__(".data.read_mostly")))
+
 #endif /* _ASM_CACHE_H */
diff --git a/trunk/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c b/trunk/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c
index acd3f2c49c06..8ad1d5679f14 100644
--- a/trunk/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/trunk/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ static char __initdata builtin_cmdline[COMMAND_LINE_SIZE] = CONFIG_CMDLINE;
  * mips_io_port_base is the begin of the address space to which x86 style
  * I/O ports are mapped.
  */
-const unsigned long mips_io_port_base __read_mostly = -1;
+const unsigned long mips_io_port_base = -1;
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(mips_io_port_base);
 
 static struct resource code_resource = { .name = "Kernel code", };