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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/mips/include/asm/sync.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/mips/include/asm/sync.h | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/sync.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/sync.h index 7c6a1095f556..44c04a82d0b7 100644 --- a/arch/mips/include/asm/sync.h +++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/sync.h @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ * * Ordering barriers can be more efficient than completion barriers, since: * - * a) Ordering barriers only require memory access instructions which preceed + * a) Ordering barriers only require memory access instructions which precede * them in program order (older instructions) to reach a point in the * load/store datapath beyond which reordering is not possible before * allowing memory access instructions which follow them (younger @@ -155,9 +155,11 @@ * effective barrier as noted by commit 6b07d38aaa52 ("MIPS: Octeon: Use * optimized memory barrier primitives."). Here we specify that the affected * sync instructions should be emitted twice. + * Note that this expression is evaluated by the assembler (not the compiler), + * and that the assembler evaluates '==' as 0 or -1, not 0 or 1. */ #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_CAVIUM_OCTEON -# define __SYNC_rpt(type) (1 + (type == __SYNC_wmb)) +# define __SYNC_rpt(type) (1 - (type == __SYNC_wmb)) #else # define __SYNC_rpt(type) 1 #endif |