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Commit e9b5a982 authored by Manfred Schlaegl's avatar Manfred Schlaegl Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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serial: imx: reduce irq-latency after rx overflow



To prevent problems with interrupt latency, and due to the fact, that
the error will be counted anyway (icount.overrun), the dev_err is simply
removed.

Background:
If an rx-fifo overflow occurs a dev_err message was called in interrupt
context. Since dev_err messages are written to console in a synchronous way
(unbuffered), and console may be a serial terminal, this leads to a
highly increased interrupt-latency (several milliseconds).
As a result of the high latency more rx-fifo overflows will happen, and
therefore a feedback loop of errors is created.

Signed-off-by: default avatarManfred Schlaegl <manfred.schlaegl@gmx.at>
Acked-By: default avatarAlexander Stein <alexander.stein@systec-electronic.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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