The new code is not quite equivalent to the old,
in that if newbit was very large it might have altered the new tophash.
The old behavior is unnecessary and probably undesirable.

Change-Id: I7fb3222520cb61081a857adcddfbb9078ead7122
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/56930
Run-TryBot: Josh Bleecher Snyder <josharian@gmail.com>
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Reviewed-by: Keith Randall <khr@golang.org>