In early 8250, IER is already zero so no point in writing this - twice per char. This helped improve the SystemC model based ARC OSCI platform Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> Cc: linux-serial@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_early.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_early.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_early.c index 4858b8a99d3b..ce2a8abd1f54 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_early.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_early.c @@ -95,13 +95,16 @@ static void __init early_serial8250_write(struct console *console, /* Save the IER and disable interrupts */ ier = serial8250_early_in(port, UART_IER); - serial8250_early_out(port, UART_IER, 0); + if (ier) + serial8250_early_out(port, UART_IER, 0); uart_console_write(port, s, count, serial_putc); /* Wait for transmitter to become empty and restore the IER */ wait_for_xmitr(port); - serial8250_early_out(port, UART_IER, ier); + + if (ier) + serial8250_early_out(port, UART_IER, ier); } static unsigned int __init probe_baud(struct uart_port *port) -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
