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[RFC patch 06/27] Kprobes - declare kprobe_mutex static

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To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...>, <linux-kernel@...>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...>, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@...>, Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...>, <hch@...>, <anil.s.keshavamurthy@...>, <davem@...>
Date: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 - 5:34 pm

Since it will not be used by other kernel objects, it makes sense to declare it
static.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
CC: hch@infradead.org
CC: anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com
CC: davem@davemloft.net
---
 kernel/kprobes.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6-lttng/kernel/kprobes.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-lttng.orig/kernel/kprobes.c	2007-08-19 09:09:15.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6-lttng/kernel/kprobes.c	2007-08-19 17:18:07.000000000 -0400
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ static struct hlist_head kretprobe_inst_
 /* NOTE: change this value only with kprobe_mutex held */
 static bool kprobe_enabled;
 
-DEFINE_MUTEX(kprobe_mutex);		/* Protects kprobe_table */
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(kprobe_mutex);	/* Protects kprobe_table */
 DEFINE_SPINLOCK(kretprobe_lock);	/* Protects kretprobe_inst_table */
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct kprobe *, kprobe_instance) = NULL;
 

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