This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled powerpc/pmac/smp: Drop unnecessary volatile qualifier to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: powerpc-pmac-smp-drop-unnecessary-volatile-qualifier.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From a4037d1f1fc4e92b69d7196d4568c33078d465ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2020 16:56:04 +0800 Subject: powerpc/pmac/smp: Drop unnecessary volatile qualifier From: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@xxxxxxxxxx> commit a4037d1f1fc4e92b69d7196d4568c33078d465ea upstream. core99_l2_cache/core99_l3_cache do not need to be marked as volatile, remove it. Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200303085604.24952-1-yuehaibing@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/smp.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/smp.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/smp.c @@ -664,8 +664,8 @@ static void core99_init_caches(int cpu) { #ifndef CONFIG_PPC64 /* L2 and L3 cache settings to pass from CPU0 to CPU1 on G4 cpus */ - volatile static long int core99_l2_cache; - volatile static long int core99_l3_cache; + static long int core99_l2_cache; + static long int core99_l3_cache; if (!cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_L2CR)) return; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from yuehaibing@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.4/powerpc-pmac-smp-drop-unnecessary-volatile-qualifier.patch