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Message-Id: <1269830604-26214-32-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org>
Date:	Sun, 28 Mar 2010 19:43:24 -0700
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 31/31] x86: make e820 to be __initdata

Finally no users after init boot stage. We can free it

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/e820.h |    2 --
 arch/x86/kernel/e820.c      |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/e820.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/e820.h
index cd7de51..f2ab72e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/e820.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/e820.h
@@ -73,8 +73,6 @@ struct e820map {
 #define BIOS_END		0x00100000
 
 #ifdef __KERNEL__
-/* see comment in arch/x86/kernel/e820.c */
-extern struct e820map e820;
 
 #if defined(CONFIG_X86_OOSTORE) && defined(CONFIG_CPU_SUP_CENTAUR)
 extern int centaur_ram_top;
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c b/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
index 2182bb0..5a0d688 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
  * user can e.g. boot the original kernel with mem=1G while still booting the
  * next kernel with full memory.
  */
-struct e820map e820;
+static struct e820map __initdata e820;
 static struct e820map __initdata e820_saved;
 
 /* For PCI or other memory-mapped resources */
-- 
1.6.4.2

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