Patch "ARC: bitops: Remove non relevant comments" has been added to the 4.5-stable tree
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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ARC: bitops: Remove non relevant comments
to the 4.5-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
arc-bitops-remove-non-relevant-comments.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.5 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.
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2a41b6dc28dc71c1a3f1622612a26edc58f7561eMon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vineet Gupta <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 19:31:24 +0530
Subject: ARC: bitops: Remove non relevant comments
From: Vineet Gupta <[email protected]>
commit 2a41b6dc28dc71c1a3f1622612a26edc58f7561e upstream.
commit 80f420842ff42 removed the ARC bitops microoptimization but failed to prune the comments to same effect
--- arch/arc/include/asm/bitops.h | 15 --------------- 1 file changed, 15 deletions(-)
arch/arc/include/asm/bitops.h +0 -15
@@ -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__( \
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-4.5/arc-readl-writel-to-work-in-big-endian-cpu-configuration.patch queue-4.5/arc-bitops-remove-non-relevant-comments.patch queue-4.5/arc-add-ethernet-phy-description-in-.dts.patch