On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 08:43:07AM +0800, kbuild test robot wrote:
> kernel/sched/idle.c:184:1: sparse: symbol '__pcpu_scope_cpu_dead_idle' was 
> not declared. Should it be static?
> 
> Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <[email protected]>

It cannot be static, as it is used in kernel/cpu.c.  But it sounds like
sparse would be happier if the DECLARE_PER_CPU() was visible in
kernel/sched/idle.c.  Which would allow the compiler to catch certain
kinds of typos, now that I think about it.

Or am I missing something here?

                                                        Thanx, Paul

> ---
>  idle.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/idle.c b/kernel/sched/idle.c
> index 42b5102..41354cd 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/idle.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/idle.c
> @@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ exit_idle:
>       start_critical_timings();
>  }
> 
> -DEFINE_PER_CPU(bool, cpu_dead_idle);
> +static DEFINE_PER_CPU(bool, cpu_dead_idle);
> 
>  /*
>   * Generic idle loop implementation
> 

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