From: Adrian Bunk This patch makes a needlessly global spinlock static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk Signed-off-by: Chris Wright Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- 25-akpm/include/linux/capability.h | 2 -- 25-akpm/kernel/capability.c | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN include/linux/capability.h~kernel-capabilityc-make-a-spinlock-static include/linux/capability.h --- 25/include/linux/capability.h~kernel-capabilityc-make-a-spinlock-static Tue Jan 18 14:34:55 2005 +++ 25-akpm/include/linux/capability.h Tue Jan 18 14:34:55 2005 @@ -44,8 +44,6 @@ typedef struct __user_cap_data_struct { #include -extern spinlock_t task_capability_lock; - /* #define STRICT_CAP_T_TYPECHECKS */ #ifdef STRICT_CAP_T_TYPECHECKS diff -puN kernel/capability.c~kernel-capabilityc-make-a-spinlock-static kernel/capability.c --- 25/kernel/capability.c~kernel-capabilityc-make-a-spinlock-static Tue Jan 18 14:34:55 2005 +++ 25-akpm/kernel/capability.c Tue Jan 18 14:34:55 2005 @@ -20,10 +20,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(securebits); EXPORT_SYMBOL(cap_bset); /* - * This global lock protects task->cap_* for all tasks including current. + * This lock protects task->cap_* for all tasks including current. * Locking rule: acquire this prior to tasklist_lock. */ -DEFINE_SPINLOCK(task_capability_lock); +static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(task_capability_lock); /* * For sys_getproccap() and sys_setproccap(), any of the three _