Access to this variable is already serialized via a spin lock. Get rid of the unnecessary volatile qualifier. Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kane <v-abkane@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Hank Janssen <hjanssen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/hv/ring_buffer.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/hv/ring_buffer.c b/drivers/staging/hv/ring_buffer.c index 2a461ddee..badf52a 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/hv/ring_buffer.c +++ b/drivers/staging/hv/ring_buffer.c @@ -364,7 +364,7 @@ int hv_ringbuffer_write(struct hv_ring_buffer_info *outring_info, u32 totalbytes_towrite = 0; struct scatterlist *sg; - volatile u32 next_write_location; + u32 next_write_location; u64 prev_indices = 0; unsigned long flags; -- 1.7.4.1 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel