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

[Kamal Mostafa]

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-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.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-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11.3.

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

For more information about the 3.13.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 4b497e53c62d33905bcdd7f56772b5e0bf6f127a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
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: Kamal Mostafa <kamal 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 61ecd70..922d5bc 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