From: Vineet Gupta Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 14:01:24 +0000 (+0530) Subject: ARC: bitops: Remove non relevant comments X-Git-Tag: Ubuntu-4.8.0-22.24~1624^2~19 X-Git-Url: https://git.proxmox.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2a41b6dc28dc71c1a3f1622612a26edc58f7561e;p=mirror_ubuntu-zesty-kernel.git ARC: bitops: Remove non relevant comments commit 80f420842ff42 removed the ARC bitops microoptimization but failed to prune the comments to same effect Fixes: 80f420842ff42 ("ARC: Make ARC bitops "safer" (add anti-optimization)") Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta --- diff --git a/arch/arc/include/asm/bitops.h b/arch/arc/include/asm/bitops.h index 57c1f33844d4..0352fb8d21b9 100644 --- a/arch/arc/include/asm/bitops.h +++ b/arch/arc/include/asm/bitops.h @@ -35,21 +35,6 @@ static inline void op##_bit(unsigned long nr, volatile unsigned long *m)\ \ m += nr >> 5; \ \ - /* \ - * ARC ISA micro-optimization: \ - * \ - * Instructions dealing with bitpos only consider lower 5 bits \ - * e.g (x << 33) is handled like (x << 1) by ASL instruction \ - * (mem pointer still needs adjustment to point to next word) \ - * \ - * Hence the masking to clamp @nr arg can be elided in general. \ - * \ - * However if @nr is a constant (above assumed in a register), \ - * and greater than 31, gcc can optimize away (x << 33) to 0, \ - * as overflow, given the 32-bit ISA. Thus masking needs to be \ - * done for const @nr, but no code is generated due to gcc \ - * const prop. \ - */ \ nr &= 0x1f; \ \ __asm__ __volatile__( \