Re: [PATCH 7/7] x86: fix section of a disable_apic_timer

[Henrik Kretzschmar <henne@nachtwindheim.de>]

Am 03.03.2011 22:18, schrieb Cyrill Gorcunov:
> On 03/03/2011 11:05 PM, Henrik Kretzschmar wrote:
>> This variable placed better into section .init.data,
>> since its only accessed by __init code.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Henrik Kretzschmar <henne@nachtwindheim.de>
>> ---
>>  arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c |    2 +-
>>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
>> index 64efb2d..dab58b6 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
>> @@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ early_param("nox2apic", setup_nox2apic);
>>  unsigned long mp_lapic_addr;
>>  int disable_apic;
>>  /* Disable local APIC timer from the kernel commandline or via dmi quirk */
>> -static int disable_apic_timer __cpuinitdata;
>> +static int disable_apic_timer __initdata = 0;
>>  /* Local APIC timer works in C2 */
>>  int local_apic_timer_c2_ok;
>>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(local_apic_timer_c2_ok);
> 
> Good to me, though I don't get why we need 0 here.
> 

I wanted to help gcc, but some tests showed me that gcc is much cleverer than I thought.
So I verified that you are right and I'll change that gladly.