The serial core aquires the port spinlock before calling
port->ops->start_tx(), so sa1100_start_tx() shouldn't try to lock it
again.
BUG: spinlock recursion on CPU#0, init/1
 lock: 
c0205f20, .magic: 
dead4ead, .owner: init/1, .owner_cpu: 0
[<
c0022cdc>] (dump_stack+0x0/0x14) [<
c00dc338>] (spin_bug+0x0/0xbc)
[<
c00dc6b0>] (_raw_spin_lock+0x0/0x170)  r8 = 
00000007  r7 = 
C02FE0070
[<
c018a2a8>] (_spin_lock_irqsave+0x0/0x24)  r4 = 
C0205F20
[<
c0112110>] (sa1100_start_tx+0x0/0x40)  r4 = 
C038C000
[<
c010ee38>] (__uart_start+0x0/0x5c) [<
c010ee94>] (uart_start+0x0/0x3
[<
c010f1d0>] (uart_write+0x0/0xdc) [<
c00fee34>] (write_chan+0x0/0x370
Signed-off-by: Florin Malita <fmalita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
 
 }
 
 /*
- * interrupts may not be disabled on entry
+ * port locked and interrupts disabled
  */
 static void sa1100_start_tx(struct uart_port *port)
 {
        unsigned long flags;
        u32 utcr3;
 
-       spin_lock_irqsave(&sport->port.lock, flags);
        utcr3 = UART_GET_UTCR3(sport);
        sport->port.read_status_mask |= UTSR0_TO_SM(UTSR0_TFS);
        UART_PUT_UTCR3(sport, utcr3 | UTCR3_TIE);
-       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sport->port.lock, flags);
 }
 
 /*