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Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/mips/include/asm/io.h | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/mips/kernel/setup.c | 2 |
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/io.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/io.h index 97a280640daf..d58ff2229738 100644 --- a/arch/mips/include/asm/io.h +++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/io.h @@ -63,21 +63,11 @@ * instruction, so the lower 16 bits must be zero. Should be true on * on any sane architecture; generic code does not use this assumption. */ -extern const unsigned long mips_io_port_base; +extern unsigned long mips_io_port_base; -/* - * Gcc will generate code to load the value of mips_io_port_base after each - * function call which may be fairly wasteful in some cases. So we don't - * play quite by the book. We tell gcc mips_io_port_base is a long variable - * which solves the code generation issue. Now we need to violate the - * aliasing rules a little to make initialization possible and finally we - * will need the barrier() to fight side effects of the aliasing chat. - * This trickery will eventually collapse under gcc's optimizer. Oh well. - */ static inline void set_io_port_base(unsigned long base) { - * (unsigned long *) &mips_io_port_base = base; - barrier(); + mips_io_port_base = base; } /* diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c b/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c index 2f13814807a9..b8249c233754 100644 --- a/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ static char __initdata builtin_cmdline[COMMAND_LINE_SIZE] = CONFIG_CMDLINE; * mips_io_port_base is the begin of the address space to which x86 style * I/O ports are mapped. */ -const unsigned long mips_io_port_base = -1; +unsigned long mips_io_port_base = -1; EXPORT_SYMBOL(mips_io_port_base); static struct resource code_resource = { .name = "Kernel code", }; |