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Message-ID: <20070924111456.GD3968@skynet.ie>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:14:57 +0100
From: mel@...net.ie (Mel Gorman)
To: Satyam Sharma <satyam@...radead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jason.wessel@...driver.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1
On (22/09/07 14:11), Satyam Sharma didst pronounce:
>
> > -static volatile int kgdb_hwbreak_sstep[NR_CPUS];
> > +volatile int kgdb_hwbreak_sstep[NR_CPUS];
>
> That looks fishy to me. Why is it volatile-qualified?
It turned out that it was unnecessary. A follow-up patch removed the volatile
and kept the static.
> And does that
> actually want to be a per-cpu var?
>
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Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab
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