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-rw-r--r--drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c7
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
index 4dc143eee086..de6655d50c37 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
@@ -2002,12 +2002,11 @@ dont_test_tx_en:
}
/*
- * Finally, enable interrupts. Note: Modem status interrupts
- * are set via set_termios(), which will be occurring imminently
- * anyway, so we don't enable them here.
+ * Set the IER shadow for rx interrupts but defer actual interrupt
+ * enable until after the FIFOs are enabled; otherwise, an already-
+ * active sender can swamp the interrupt handler with "too much work".
*/
up->ier = UART_IER_RLSI | UART_IER_RDI;
- serial_port_out(port, UART_IER, up->ier);
if (port->flags & UPF_FOURPORT) {
unsigned int icp;