[PATCH] Remove 'volatile' from spinlock_types

This is a resubmission of patches originally created by Ingo Molnar.
The link below is the initial (?) posting of the patch.

  http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=115217423929806&w=2

Remove 'volatile' from spinlock_types as it causes GCC to generate bad
code (see link) and locking should be used on kernel data.

Signed-off-by: Art Haas <ahaas@airmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-x86_64/spinlock_types.h b/include/asm-x86_64/spinlock_types.h
index 59efe849f351..4da9345c1500 100644
--- a/include/asm-x86_64/spinlock_types.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86_64/spinlock_types.h
@@ -6,13 +6,13 @@
 #endif
 
 typedef struct {
-        volatile unsigned int slock;
+        unsigned int slock;
 } raw_spinlock_t;
 
 #define __RAW_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED        { 1 }
 
 typedef struct {
-        volatile unsigned int lock;
+        unsigned int lock;
 } raw_rwlock_t;
 
 #define __RAW_RW_LOCK_UNLOCKED          { RW_LOCK_BIAS }