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authorVineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>2016-03-08 19:31:24 +0530
committerVineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>2016-03-11 14:59:54 +0530
commit2a41b6dc28dc71c1a3f1622612a26edc58f7561e (patch)
tree13485c1bd93ad834ec0859e8b0112439c13beb90 /arch/arc/include
parent7423cc0caee7a42735ee2908f24ec69957c9bc85 (diff)
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 <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arc/include')
-rw-r--r--arch/arc/include/asm/bitops.h15
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 15 deletions
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__( \