[PATCH 00/12] drop volatile from global data

[Tom Rini]

On Wed, 04 Jun 2025 21:56:00 +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:

> There's really no reason for the gd pointer to have the volatile
> qualifier.
> 
> In fact, I claim that it's completely unnecessary and just pessimizes
> code generation and forces ugly casts in lots of places. For example,
> see the casts in drivers/core/tag.c where elements are added to
> gd->dm_taglist, or a helper such as cyclic_get_list() that should not
> be needed.
> 
> [...]

Applied to u-boot/next, thanks!

[01/12] arm: drop volatile qualifier from gd pointer
        commit: 45fa0014ba56fc52765d66edda489933ce0e9871
[02/12] powerpc: drop volatile qualifier from gd pointer
        commit: aa53d9bb7d7b470eaa62e53550d66546f80d2446
[03/12] mips: drop volatile qualifier from gd pointer
        commit: 344c7e091c2033be4a5cb8bf73c08d8cf020b77d
[04/12] microblaze: drop volatile qualifier from gd pointer
        commit: fe0fa2bb6635ce3826b38204e68b284ada3a79fe
[05/12] m68k: drop volatile qualifier from gd pointer
        commit: e66d7fc089912a8f84bbbfa4a69eb5c0ebaa1e1d
[06/12] m68k: drop pointless #if 0 block
        commit: a6f3d70a6bc2f99ac86f47bc5697d7e6e36ea7b8
[07/12] arc: drop volatile qualifier from gd pointer
        commit: 30b97f58f20e58ea5bb1d5dce7253c58d03629d5
[08/12] arm: imx: remove unnecessary volatile qualifiers from "save gd" variables
        commit: 01869368c08278d19a0b7ec744013bc88afcf09a
[09/12] efi: drop volatile qualifier from "save gd" variables
        commit: 83b040983c92446c284c7b4ee5f97c60c6ab5afc
[10/12] lib/trace: drop volatile qualifier from "save gd" variables
        commit: abe705be4751dfd5ae2ed0c24971cd4417f645ad
[11/12] arm: remove volatile from set_gd prototype
        commit: ce55643546a59c05d6c4b181c2b490b6db7ba1f5
[12/12] riscv: remove volatile from set_gd prototype
        commit: ae86cd8c59fe08c9a37d14dbd6e42190dda2a0d4
-- 
Tom