serial: liteuart: separate rx loop from poll timer

Convert the rx loop into its own dedicated function, and (for now)
call it from the poll timer. This is in preparation for adding irq
support to the receive path.

Signed-off-by: Gabriel Somlo <gsomlo@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221123130500.1030189-11-gsomlo@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

drivers/tty/serial/liteuart.c

@@ -68,10 +68,8 @@ static struct uart_driver liteuart_driver = {
 #endif
 };
 
-static void liteuart_timer(struct timer_list *t)
+static void liteuart_rx_chars(struct uart_port *port)
 {
-	struct liteuart_port *uart = from_timer(uart, t, timer);
-	struct uart_port *port = &uart->port;
 	unsigned char __iomem *membase = port->membase;
 	u8 ch;
 
@@ -88,6 +86,14 @@ static void liteuart_timer(struct timer_list *t)
 	}
 
 	tty_flip_buffer_push(&port->state->port);
+}
+
+static void liteuart_timer(struct timer_list *t)
+{
+	struct liteuart_port *uart = from_timer(uart, t, timer);
+	struct uart_port *port = &uart->port;
+
+	liteuart_rx_chars(port);
 
 	mod_timer(&uart->timer, jiffies + uart_poll_timeout(port));
 }