Commit c011f80b authored by David S. Miller's avatar David S. Miller

sparc64: Add some more commentary to __raw_local_irq_save()

Suggested by Peter Zijlstra
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 9343af08
......@@ -80,6 +80,13 @@ static inline unsigned long __raw_local_irq_save(void)
/* Disable interrupts to PIL_NORMAL_MAX unless we already
* are using PIL_NMI, in which case PIL_NMI is retained.
*
* The only values we ever program into the %pil are 0,
* PIL_NORMAL_MAX and PIL_NMI.
*
* Since PIL_NMI is the largest %pil value and all bits are
* set in it (0xf), it doesn't matter what PIL_NORMAL_MAX
* actually is.
*/
__asm__ __volatile__(
"rdpr %%pil, %0\n\t"
......
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