Document that .(un)throttle() are serialized with each other, and with
termios modification by the tty layer.

Reported-by: Peter Hurley <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
---
 Documentation/serial/driver | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/serial/driver b/Documentation/serial/driver
index 03b703cf93182216..7fb80682e394eb76 100644
--- a/Documentation/serial/driver
+++ b/Documentation/serial/driver
@@ -137,7 +137,8 @@ hardware.
        should be sent to the serial port.
        This will be called only if hardware assisted flow control is enabled.
 
-       Locking: none.
+       Locking: serialized with .unthrottle() and termios modification by the
+                tty layer.
 
   unthrottle(port)
        Notify the serial driver that characters can now be sent to the serial
@@ -145,7 +146,8 @@ hardware.
        disciplines.
        This will be called only if hardware assisted flow control is enabled.
 
-       Locking: none.
+       Locking: serialized with .throttle() and termios modification by the
+                tty layer.
 
   send_xchar(port,ch)
        Transmit a high priority character, even if the port is stopped.
-- 
1.9.1

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