1 files changed, 11 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/oprofile/buffer_sync.c b/drivers/oprofile/buffer_sync.c
index 69a732778ba..615929f6f0c 100644
--- a/drivers/oprofile/buffer_sync.c
+++ b/drivers/oprofile/buffer_sync.c
@@ -268,6 +268,17 @@ lookup_dcookie(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, off_t *offset)
         return cookie;
 }
 
+static void increment_tail(struct oprofile_cpu_buffer *b)
+{
+        unsigned long new_tail = b->tail_pos + 1;
+
+        rmb();
+
+        if (new_tail < b->buffer_size)
+                b->tail_pos = new_tail;
+        else
+                b->tail_pos = 0;
+}
 
 static unsigned long last_cookie = INVALID_COOKIE;
 
@@ -417,19 +428,6 @@ static unsigned long get_slots(struct oprofile_cpu_buffer *b)
 }
 
 
-static void increment_tail(struct oprofile_cpu_buffer *b)
-{
-        unsigned long new_tail = b->tail_pos + 1;
-
-        rmb();
-
-        if (new_tail < b->buffer_size)
-                b->tail_pos = new_tail;
-        else
-                b->tail_pos = 0;
-}
-
-
 /* Move tasks along towards death. Any tasks on dead_tasks
  * will definitely have no remaining references in any
  * CPU buffers at this point, because we use two lists,