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-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__( \
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