From: Adrian Bunk This patch makes a needlessly global variable static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- 25-akpm/arch/i386/kernel/process.c | 2 +- 25-akpm/arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN arch/i386/kernel/process.c~i386-x86_64-processc-make-hlt_counter-static arch/i386/kernel/process.c --- 25/arch/i386/kernel/process.c~i386-x86_64-processc-make-hlt_counter-static 2005-02-02 18:21:11.904376848 -0800 +++ 25-akpm/arch/i386/kernel/process.c 2005-02-02 18:21:11.909376088 -0800 @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ asmlinkage void ret_from_fork(void) __asm__("ret_from_fork"); -int hlt_counter; +static int hlt_counter; unsigned long boot_option_idle_override = 0; EXPORT_SYMBOL(boot_option_idle_override); diff -puN arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c~i386-x86_64-processc-make-hlt_counter-static arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c --- 25/arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c~i386-x86_64-processc-make-hlt_counter-static 2005-02-02 18:21:11.906376544 -0800 +++ 25-akpm/arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c 2005-02-02 18:21:11.910375936 -0800 @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ asmlinkage extern void ret_from_fork(voi unsigned long kernel_thread_flags = CLONE_VM | CLONE_UNTRACED; -atomic_t hlt_counter = ATOMIC_INIT(0); +static atomic_t hlt_counter = ATOMIC_INIT(0); unsigned long boot_option_idle_override = 0; EXPORT_SYMBOL(boot_option_idle_override); _