x86[-64]:Remove 'volatile' from atomic_t

Any code that relies on the volatile would be a bug waiting to happen
anyway.

Don't encourage people to think that putting 'volatile' on data
structures somehow fixes problems.  We should always use proper locking
(and other serialization) techniques.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-i386/atomic.h b/include/asm-i386/atomic.h
index 51a1662..a6c024e 100644
--- a/include/asm-i386/atomic.h
+++ b/include/asm-i386/atomic.h
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
  * on us. We need to use _exactly_ the address the user gave us,
  * not some alias that contains the same information.
  */
-typedef struct { volatile int counter; } atomic_t;
+typedef struct { int counter; } atomic_t;
 
 #define ATOMIC_INIT(i)	{ (i) }
 
diff --git a/include/asm-x86_64/atomic.h b/include/asm-x86_64/atomic.h
index 007e88d..93849f7 100644
--- a/include/asm-x86_64/atomic.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86_64/atomic.h
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
  * on us. We need to use _exactly_ the address the user gave us,
  * not some alias that contains the same information.
  */
-typedef struct { volatile int counter; } atomic_t;
+typedef struct { int counter; } atomic_t;
 
 #define ATOMIC_INIT(i)	{ (i) }