diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c b/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c
index 294bcca985ab7ec2de873dff4716f0681500c0be..e29fd5aeaf8e4fa9dfa5f73281e17b7079c153f9 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(efi_enabled);
 /* cpu data as detected by the assembly code in head.S */
 struct cpuinfo_x86 new_cpu_data __initdata = { 0, 0, 0, 0, -1, 1, 0, 0, -1 };
 /* common cpu data for all cpus */
-struct cpuinfo_x86 boot_cpu_data = { 0, 0, 0, 0, -1, 1, 0, 0, -1 };
+struct cpuinfo_x86 boot_cpu_data __read_mostly = { 0, 0, 0, 0, -1, 1, 0, 0, -1 };
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(boot_cpu_data);
 
 unsigned long mmu_cr4_features;
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_hpet.c b/arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_hpet.c
index 001de97c9e4a78b720cf5d567e60656739c200a5..6dbb29f834e81ba19dcb5aa8658d4227c8f2b5d0 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_hpet.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_hpet.c
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 #include "mach_timer.h"
 #include <asm/hpet.h>
 
-static unsigned long __read_mostly hpet_usec_quotient;	/* convert hpet clks to usec */
+static unsigned long hpet_usec_quotient __read_mostly;	/* convert hpet clks to usec */
 static unsigned long tsc_hpet_quotient;		/* convert tsc to hpet clks */
 static unsigned long hpet_last; 	/* hpet counter value at last tick*/
 static unsigned long last_tsc_low;	/* lsb 32 bits of Time Stamp Counter */
diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index 404319477e71d61679166bc954ed246719affe89..bb43340d3973950a9ab4d81cadf575db91a4129b 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ pgprot_t protection_map[16] = {
 
 int sysctl_overcommit_memory = OVERCOMMIT_GUESS;  /* heuristic overcommit */
 int sysctl_overcommit_ratio = 50;	/* default is 50% */
-int sysctl_max_map_count = DEFAULT_MAX_MAP_COUNT;
+int sysctl_max_map_count __read_mostly = DEFAULT_MAX_MAP_COUNT;
 atomic_t vm_committed_space = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
 
 /*
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index b06a9636d971d2a3e89dcab022047b24753d0479..34bba8f1144ed6fcbe9a07fb0a9d075006961a84 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -42,11 +42,11 @@
  * MCD - HACK: Find somewhere to initialize this EARLY, or make this
  * initializer cleaner
  */
-nodemask_t node_online_map = { { [0] = 1UL } };
+nodemask_t node_online_map __read_mostly = { { [0] = 1UL } };
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(node_online_map);
-nodemask_t node_possible_map = NODE_MASK_ALL;
+nodemask_t node_possible_map __read_mostly = NODE_MASK_ALL;
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(node_possible_map);
-struct pglist_data *pgdat_list;
+struct pglist_data *pgdat_list __read_mostly;
 unsigned long totalram_pages;
 unsigned long totalhigh_pages;
 long nr_swap_pages;
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(nr_swap_pages);
  * Used by page_zone() to look up the address of the struct zone whose
  * id is encoded in the upper bits of page->flags
  */
-struct zone *zone_table[1 << ZONETABLE_SHIFT];
+struct zone *zone_table[1 << ZONETABLE_SHIFT] __read_mostly;
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(zone_table);
 
 static char *zone_names[MAX_NR_ZONES] = { "DMA", "Normal", "HighMem" };