Commit 5d0c9b0e authored Feb 13, 2020 by Will Deacon Committed by Peter Zijlstra Mar 06, 2020

asm-generic/bitops: Update stale comment

The comment in 'asm-generic/bitops.h' states that you should "recode
these in the native assembly language, if at all possible". This is
pretty crappy advice now that the generic implementation is defined in
terms of atomic_long_t rather than a spinlock, so update the comment and
hopefully save future architecture maintainers a bit of work.

Reported-by: Stefan Asserhall <stefana@xilinx.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200213093927.1836-1-will@kernel.org

parent 4b39f99c

include/asm-generic/bitops.h

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		/*
		* For the benefit of those who are trying to port Linux to another
		* architecture, here are some C-language equivalents. You should
		* recode these in the native assembly language, if at all possible.
		* architecture, here are some C-language equivalents. They should
		* generate reasonable code, so take a look at what your compiler spits
		* out before rolling your own buggy implementation in assembly language.
		*
		* C language equivalents written by Theodore Ts'o, 9/26/92
		*/