[PATCH v2 06/10] drivers: PL011: replace UART_MIS reading with _RIS & _IMSC
From: Russell King - ARM Linux <hidden>
Date: 2015-03-12 10:46:51
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linux-serial
From: Russell King - ARM Linux <hidden>
Date: 2015-03-12 10:46:51
Also in:
linux-serial
On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 05:59:50PM +0000, Andre Przywara wrote:
The PL011 register UART_MIS is actually a bitwise AND of the UART_RIS and the UART_MISC register. Since the SBSA UART does not include the _MIS register, use the two separate registers to get the same behaviour. Since we are inside the spinlock and we read the _IMSC register only once, there should be no race issue.
Do we really need to go all the way to the hardware for this? Isn't uap->im sufficient? Reading from memory is potentially faster as it could be in the CPU caches. -- FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line: currently at 10.5Mbps down 400kbps up according to speedtest.net.