There is no need to have the 'struct dentry *d_swiotlb_usage' variable static since new value always be assigned before use it. Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@xxxxxxxxxx> --- v2: fix patch title --- kernel/dma/swiotlb.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c b/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c index a7b53786db9f..02fa517c47d9 100644 --- a/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c +++ b/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c @@ -689,7 +689,7 @@ swiotlb_dma_supported(struct device *hwdev, u64 mask) static int __init swiotlb_create_debugfs(void) { - static struct dentry *d_swiotlb_usage; + struct dentry *d_swiotlb_usage; struct dentry *ent; d_swiotlb_usage = debugfs_create_dir("swiotlb", NULL);