From: Ingo Molnar Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 08:30:01 -0500 Subject: serial: 8250: Clean up the locking for -rt Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- drivers/tty/serial/8250.c | 15 +++++---------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) Index: linux-3.2/drivers/tty/serial/8250.c =================================================================== --- linux-3.2.orig/drivers/tty/serial/8250.c +++ linux-3.2/drivers/tty/serial/8250.c @@ -2846,14 +2846,10 @@ serial8250_console_write(struct console touch_nmi_watchdog(); - local_irq_save(flags); - if (up->port.sysrq) { - /* serial8250_handle_port() already took the lock */ - locked = 0; - } else if (oops_in_progress) { - locked = spin_trylock(&up->port.lock); - } else - spin_lock(&up->port.lock); + if (up->port.sysrq || oops_in_progress) + locked = spin_trylock_irqsave(&up->port.lock, flags); + else + spin_lock_irqsave(&up->port.lock, flags); /* * First save the IER then disable the interrupts @@ -2885,8 +2881,7 @@ serial8250_console_write(struct console check_modem_status(up); if (locked) - spin_unlock(&up->port.lock); - local_irq_restore(flags); + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&up->port.lock, flags); } static int __init serial8250_console_setup(struct console *co, char *options)