When we're running our hardirq handler, there's not need to disable IRQs with spin_lock_irqsave() because IRQs are already disabled. It also makes no difference if we save or not IRQ flags. Switch over to simple spin_lock/spin_unlock and drop the "flags" variable. Tested-by: Shubhrajyoti D <shubhrajyoti@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@xxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/serial/omap-serial.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/omap-serial.c b/drivers/tty/serial/omap-serial.c index 0ceca44..99042b0 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/omap-serial.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/omap-serial.c @@ -351,11 +351,10 @@ static inline irqreturn_t serial_omap_irq(int irq, void *dev_id) struct tty_struct *tty = up->port.state->port.tty; unsigned int iir, lsr; unsigned int type; - unsigned long flags; irqreturn_t ret = IRQ_NONE; int max_count = 256; - spin_lock_irqsave(&up->port.lock, flags); + spin_lock(&up->port.lock); pm_runtime_get_sync(up->dev); do { @@ -394,7 +393,7 @@ static inline irqreturn_t serial_omap_irq(int irq, void *dev_id) } } while (!(iir & UART_IIR_NO_INT) && max_count--); - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&up->port.lock, flags); + spin_unlock(&up->port.lock); tty_flip_buffer_push(tty); -- 1.7.12.rc3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html