Re: [PATCH] remove volatile from nmi.c

[Chase Venters <chase.venters@clientec.com>]

On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c b/arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c
> index 2dd928a..eb8bbbb 100644
> --- a/arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c
> +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c
> @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
>  */
> static __init void nmi_cpu_busy(void *data)
> {
> -	volatile int *endflag = data;
> +	int *endflag = data;
> 	local_irq_enable_in_hardirq();
> 	/* Intentionally don't use cpu_relax here. This is
> 	   to make sure that the performance counter really ticks,
> @@ -121,10 +121,14 @@ #endif
>
> static int __init check_nmi_watchdog(void)
> {
> -	volatile int endflag = 0;
> +	static int endflag = 0;

Now that this is static, isn't this a candidate for __initdata?

> 	unsigned int *prev_nmi_count;
> 	int cpu;
>
> +	/* Have we done this already? */
> +	if (endflag)
> +		return 0;
> +
> 	if (nmi_watchdog == NMI_NONE)
> 		return 0;

Thanks,
Chase
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