linux-kernel - PATCH: Remove endflag in NMI smp_call

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Message-Id: <20071203170611.4651.89732.sendpatchset@prarit.boston.redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 3 Dec 2007 12:06:11 -0500
From:	Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, wim@...ana.be, dzickus@...hat.com,
	clalance@...hat.com
Cc:	Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com>
Subject: PATCH: Remove endflag in NMI smp_call_function call

(Wim, I'm not sure if you're the right person to get this or not.  Nothing else
 came close in the MAINTAINERS file ....)

'endflag' is globally defined -- Passing endflag into smp_call_function is no
longer necessary.

Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com>

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/nmi_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/nmi_32.c
index f5cc47c..50ba4e6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/nmi_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/nmi_32.c
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ static int __init check_nmi_watchdog(void)
 	printk(KERN_INFO "Testing NMI watchdog ... ");
 
 	if (nmi_watchdog == NMI_LOCAL_APIC)
-		smp_call_function(nmi_cpu_busy, (void *)&endflag, 0, 0);
+		smp_call_function(nmi_cpu_busy, NULL, 0, 0);
 
 	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
 		prev_nmi_count[cpu] = per_cpu(irq_stat, cpu).__nmi_count;
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/nmi_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/nmi_64.c
index a576fd7..0443068 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/nmi_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/nmi_64.c
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ int __init check_nmi_watchdog (void)
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 	if (nmi_watchdog == NMI_LOCAL_APIC)
-		smp_call_function(nmi_cpu_busy, (void *)&endflag, 0, 0);
+		smp_call_function(nmi_cpu_busy, NULL, 0, 0);
 #endif
 
 	for (cpu = 0; cpu < NR_CPUS; cpu++)
--
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