From: Adrian Bunk With the needlessly global marker_debug being static gcc can optimize the unused code away. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- kernel/marker.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN kernel/marker.c~make-marker_debug-static kernel/marker.c --- a/kernel/marker.c~make-marker_debug-static +++ a/kernel/marker.c @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ extern struct marker __start___markers[] extern struct marker __stop___markers[]; /* Set to 1 to enable marker debug output */ -const int marker_debug; +static const int marker_debug; /* * markers_mutex nests inside module_mutex. Markers mutex protects the builtin _