Although we populate the ->throttle and ->unthrottle UART operations, these may not be called until the ldisc has had a chance to schedule and check buffer space. This means that we may overflow the flip buffers without ever hitting the ldisc's throttle threshold. This change implements an interrupt-based throttle, where we check for space in the flip buffers before reading characters from the UART's FIFO. If there's no space available, we disable the RX interrupt and schedule a timer to check for space later. For this, we need an unlocked version of the set_throttle function to be able to change throttle state from the irq_handler, which already holds port->lock. This prevents a case where we drop characters under heavy RX load. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Tested-by: Eddie James <eajames@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>