Minor thread-safety improvements to HLTrigger/HLTcore

[Dr15Jones]

-Converted a static to const to avoid complaints from static analyzer.
-Removed use of HLTConfigCounter since wasn't thread safe and wasn't
actually doing anything useful.

[cmsbuild]

A new Pull Request was created by @Dr15Jones (Chris Jones) for CMSSW_7_2_X.

Minor thread-safety improvements to HLTrigger/HLTcore

It involves the following packages:

HLTrigger/HLTcore

@perrotta, @cmsbuild, @nclopezo, @Martin-Grunewald, @fwyzard, @Degano can you please review it and eventually sign? Thanks.
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[Martin-Grunewald]

I get an github error:

Switched to branch 'from-CMSSW_7_2_X_2014-07-23-0200'
From .
 * [new ref]                    -> merge-attempt
fatal: Couldn't find remote ref refs/pull/4747/head
Unexpected end of command stream

??

[Dr15Jones]

@ktf this pull has the github glitch. What is the way you use to get around it?

[nclopezo]

Hi,

When this happens I tell cms-bot to do

git cms-merge-topic Dr15Jones:threadSafetyImprovementsForHLTriggerHLTcore

using the branch name instead of the pr number.

[cmsbuild]

+1
Tested at: 74e570a
https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-4747/431/summary.html

[Martin-Grunewald]

+1

[cmsbuild]

This pull request is fully signed and it will be integrated in one of the next CMSSW_7_2_X IBs unless changes (tests are also fine).

[cmsbuild]

Comparison is ready
https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-4747/431/summary.html