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Message-Id: <201203302105.q2UL55Po006295@farm-0012.internal.tilera.com>
Date:	Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:43:20 -0400
From:	Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...era.com>
To:	Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...era.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] arch/tile: fix bug in delay_backoff()

We were carefully computing a value to use for the number of loops
to spin for, and then ignoring it.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...era.com>
---
 arch/tile/lib/spinlock_common.h |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/tile/lib/spinlock_common.h b/arch/tile/lib/spinlock_common.h
index c101098..6ac3750 100644
--- a/arch/tile/lib/spinlock_common.h
+++ b/arch/tile/lib/spinlock_common.h
@@ -60,5 +60,5 @@ static void delay_backoff(int iterations)
 	loops += __insn_crc32_32(stack_pointer, get_cycles_low()) &
 		(loops - 1);
 
-	relax(1 << exponent);
+	relax(loops);
 }
-- 
1.6.5.2

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