The patch titled
arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c: quiet sparse noise
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arch-x86-kernel-ptracec-quiet-sparse-noise.patch
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Subject: arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c: quiet sparse noise
From: H Hartley Sweeten <hartleys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
ptrace_set_debugreg() is only used in this file and should be static.
This quiets the following sparse warning:
warning: symbol 'ptrace_set_debugreg' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c~arch-x86-kernel-ptracec-quiet-sparse-noise arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c~arch-x86-kernel-ptracec-quiet-sparse-noise
+++ a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -749,7 +749,8 @@ put:
/*
* Handle PTRACE_POKEUSR calls for the debug register area.
*/
-int ptrace_set_debugreg(struct task_struct *tsk, int n, unsigned long val)
+static int ptrace_set_debugreg(struct task_struct *tsk, int n,
+ unsigned long val)
{
struct thread_struct *thread = &(tsk->thread);
int rc = 0;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from hartleys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
arch-x86-kernel-e820c-quiet-sparse-noise-about-plain-integer-as-null-pointer.patch
arch-x86-kernel-ptracec-quiet-sparse-noise.patch
lib-bitmapc-quiet-sparse-noise-about-address-space.patch
lib-bitmapc-quiet-sparse-noise-about-address-space-fix.patch
vt-suspend-cleanup-if-defined-uglyness-and-fix-compile-error.patch
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