1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-stat.c b/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-stat.c
index 112b94ed3298..1fde12762ca4 100644
--- a/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-stat.c
+++ b/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-stat.c
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ static unsigned int		page_size;
 
 static int                      zero;
 
-static int                      scale;
+static int                      scale                           =  1;
 
 static const unsigned int default_count[] = {
         1000000,