-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. --------------------- From: David S. Miller Upstream commit: 4cfea5a7dfcc2766251e50ca30271a782d5004ad 4096 will not fit into the immediate field of a compare instruction, in fact it will end up being -4096 causing the check to fail every time and thus disabling backoff. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Chris Wright --- include/asm-sparc64/backoff.h | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/include/asm-sparc64/backoff.h +++ b/include/asm-sparc64/backoff.h @@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ mov reg, tmp; \ 88: brnz,pt tmp, 88b; \ sub tmp, 1, tmp; \ - cmp reg, BACKOFF_LIMIT; \ + set BACKOFF_LIMIT, tmp; \ + cmp reg, tmp; \ bg,pn %xcc, label; \ nop; \ ba,pt %xcc, label; \ -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/