Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758602AbcDJStB (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Apr 2016 14:49:01 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:52373 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932137AbcDJSsv (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Apr 2016 14:48:51 -0400 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Vineet Gupta Subject: [PATCH 4.5 157/238] ARC: bitops: Remove non relevant comments Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2016 11:35:34 -0700 Message-Id: <20160410183505.129565077@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.8.0 In-Reply-To: <20160410183456.398741366@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20160410183456.398741366@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.64 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1504 Lines: 44 4.5-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Vineet Gupta commit 2a41b6dc28dc71c1a3f1622612a26edc58f7561e upstream. 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 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/arc/include/asm/bitops.h | 15 --------------- 1 file changed, 15 deletions(-) --- a/arch/arc/include/asm/bitops.h +++ b/arch/arc/include/asm/bitops.h @@ -35,21 +35,6 @@ static inline void op##_bit(unsigned lon \ 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__( \