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authorPeter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>2016-01-11 01:39:33 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2016-01-29 01:07:04 +0300
commit6a597a38cbaf067019db96645f36e0b1f01f306a (patch)
treed11fcdebcb430c10363154debadd558648645403
parentd22f8f10683c8c0f2675d9fd411a06facaf07c1b (diff)
downloadlinux-6a597a38cbaf067019db96645f36e0b1f01f306a.tar.xz
serial: 8250: Remove low_latency workaround
The defunct low_latency input steering executed flush_to_ldisc() directly from interrupt context so dropping the port lock was necessary to avoid deadlock. That steering was removed by commit a9c3f68f3cd8d55f809fbdb0c138ed061ea1bd25 Author: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Date: Sat Feb 22 07:31:21 2014 -0500 tty: Fix low_latency BUG Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
index 48680565c991..9ef77a52c4f2 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
@@ -1489,9 +1489,8 @@ unsigned char serial8250_rx_chars(struct uart_8250_port *up, unsigned char lsr)
break;
lsr = serial_in(up, UART_LSR);
} while (lsr & (UART_LSR_DR | UART_LSR_BI));
- spin_unlock(&port->lock);
+
tty_flip_buffer_push(&port->state->port);
- spin_lock(&port->lock);
return lsr;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(serial8250_rx_chars);