[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "8250_core: Fix unwanted TX chars write" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    8250_core: Fix unwanted TX chars write

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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From: Loic Poulain <loic.poulain at intel.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 11:38:56 +0200
Subject: 8250_core: Fix unwanted TX chars write

commit b08c9c317e3f7764a91d522cd031639ba42b98cc upstream.

On transmit-hold-register empty, serial8250_tx_chars
should be called only if we don't use DMA.
DMA has its own tx cycle.

Signed-off-by: Loic Poulain <loic.poulain at intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus at linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c
index d28d7af..9d5c661 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c
@@ -1520,7 +1520,7 @@ int serial8250_handle_irq(struct uart_port *port, unsigned int iir)
 			status = serial8250_rx_chars(up, status);
 	}
 	serial8250_modem_status(up);
-	if (status & UART_LSR_THRE)
+	if (!up->dma && (status & UART_LSR_THRE))
 		serial8250_tx_chars(up);

 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&port->lock, flags);
--
1.9.1