Re: [PATCH 2/4] tty: serial: 8250: add optional spinlock arg to serial8250_rx_chars

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Hi John,

On 01/22/2016 02:27 AM, John Ogness wrote:
> serial8250_rx_chars() must be called from interrupt context and with
> the port lock held. The port lock is released temporarily within that
> function to call tty_flip_buffer_push(). However, there may be other
> drivers that need to synchronize the tty_flip_buffer_push() call within
> serial8250_rx_chars() with other contexts. Since the port lock cannot
> be used for this synchronization, an optional spinlock argument is added.
> If non-NULL, this will be locked during the tty_flip_buffer_push() call.

I removed the port lock drop-claim in serial8250_rx_chars in patch
"serial: 8250: Remove low_latency workaround" (Greg has this patch in his
inbox but not in next because of the merge window).

IOW, you can drop this patch.

Regards,
Peter Hurley
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