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Subject[tip:x86/asm] x86: __force_order doesn' t need to be an actual variable
Commit-ID:  1d10f6ee602ec5a4bd0c1606ba5f38277da432e1
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/1d10f6ee602ec5a4bd0c1606ba5f38277da432e1
Author: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
AuthorDate: Wed, 29 May 2013 13:29:12 +0100
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Fri, 31 May 2013 13:09:17 +0200

x86: __force_order doesn't need to be an actual variable

It being static causes over a dozen instances to be scattered
across the kernel image, with non of them ever being referenced
in any way. Making the variable extern without ever defining it
works as well - all we need is to have the compiler think the
variable is being accessed.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51A610B802000078000D99A0@nat28.tlf.novell.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h
index 41fc93a..2f4d924 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ static inline void native_clts(void)
* all loads stores around it, which can hurt performance. Solution is to
* use a variable and mimic reads and writes to it to enforce serialization
*/
-static unsigned long __force_order;
+extern unsigned long __force_order;

static inline unsigned long native_read_cr0(void)
{

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