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serial: amba-pl011: use cpu_relax when polling registers
authorTimur Tabi <timur@codeaurora.org>
Fri, 15 Jan 2016 20:32:20 +0000 (14:32 -0600)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 7 Feb 2016 06:51:04 +0000 (22:51 -0800)
commit2f2fd0894991a04bf3581104d5ea3a8dc9a4f01f
tree3155722dc4b757a1cb13a34ef1e6c1d31261d2c8
parentb7ed5161f17a39ed09fd799a919b5f6de688251d
serial: amba-pl011: use cpu_relax when polling registers

Busy loops that poll on a register should call cpu_relax().  On some
architectures, it can lower CPU power consumption or yield to a
hyperthreaded twin processor.  It also serves as a compiler barrier,
so it can replace barrier() calls.

Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur@codeaurora.org>
Reviewed-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c