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Date:	Sat, 11 Apr 2009 10:05:57 +0200
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	"Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] x86: mm/pat.c pat_disable should be static

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 01:24:53PM +0530, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> Impact: reduce kernel size a bit, avoid sparse warning
> 
> Fixes sparse warning:
>   arch/x86/mm/pat.c:34:16: warning: symbol 'pat_disable' was not declared. Should it be static?
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@...il.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/mm/pat.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pat.c b/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
> index cc5e0e2..bc53d8d 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
> @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
>  #ifdef CONFIG_X86_PAT
>  int __read_mostly pat_enabled = 1;
>  
> -void __cpuinit pat_disable(const char *reason)
> +static void __cpuinit pat_disable(const char *reason)
>  {
>  	pat_enabled = 0;
>  	printk(KERN_INFO "%s\n", reason);

This is fixed in a better way.
See Marcin's patch: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/4/10/384

If you had looked carefully at the call-sites you would have noticed that not all
of them were annotated __cpunint/__init.

	Sam
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