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Subject: [PATCH 5.4 154/232] powerpc/pseries: Drop pointless static qualifier in vpa_debugfs_init()
Date:   Thu, 16 Apr 2020 15:24:08 +0200
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From: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>

commit 11dd34f3eae5a468013bb161a1dcf1fecd2ca321 upstream.

There is no need to have the 'struct dentry *vpa_dir' variable static
since new value always be assigned before use it.

Fixes: c6c26fb55e8e ("powerpc/pseries: Export raw per-CPU VPA data via debugfs")
Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190218125644.87448-1-yuehaibing@huawei.com
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c
@@ -1992,7 +1992,7 @@ static int __init vpa_debugfs_init(void)
 {
 	char name[16];
 	long i;
-	static struct dentry *vpa_dir;
+	struct dentry *vpa_dir;
 
 	if (!firmware_has_feature(FW_FEATURE_SPLPAR))
 		return 0;