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-rw-r--r--fs/dcache.c9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index 3d8daaecb6d1..6386b9b625dd 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -96,11 +96,16 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(dotdot_name);
*
* This hash-function tries to avoid losing too many bits of hash
* information, yet avoid using a prime hash-size or similar.
+ *
+ * Marking the variables "used" ensures that the compiler doesn't
+ * optimize them away completely on architectures with runtime
+ * constant infrastructure, this allows debuggers to see their
+ * values. But updating these values has no effect on those arches.
*/
-static unsigned int d_hash_shift __ro_after_init;
+static unsigned int d_hash_shift __ro_after_init __used;
-static struct hlist_bl_head *dentry_hashtable __ro_after_init;
+static struct hlist_bl_head *dentry_hashtable __ro_after_init __used;
static inline struct hlist_bl_head *d_hash(unsigned long hashlen)
{