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| author | Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2011-07-05 21:50:18 +0000 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2011-11-07 12:32:04 -0800 |
| commit | e4e132aa6024dde90b1bd685d8bea876b7434abf (patch) | |
| tree | f4a6fb5306ce07cd3c39359a2f9cbf4deced489a /drivers/char | |
| parent | dcf7e701ae30c36f62239a00d1118b41a0ae33a6 (diff) | |
hvc_console: Improve tty/console put_chars handling
commit 8c2381af0d3ef62a681dac5a141b6dabb27bf2e1 upstream.
Currently, the hvc_console_print() function drops console output if the
hvc backend's put_chars() returns 0. This patch changes this behavior
to allow a retry through returning -EAGAIN.
This change also affects the hvc_push() function. Both functions are
changed to handle -EAGAIN and to retry the put_chars() operation.
If a hvc backend returns -EAGAIN, the retry handling differs:
- hvc_console_print() spins to write the complete console output.
- hvc_push() behaves the same way as for returning 0.
Now hvc backends can indirectly control the way how console output is
handled through the hvc console layer.
Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/char/hvc_console.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/hvc_console.c b/drivers/char/hvc_console.c index f05e0fad171e..98097f25dd0d 100644 --- a/drivers/char/hvc_console.c +++ b/drivers/char/hvc_console.c @@ -162,8 +162,10 @@ static void hvc_console_print(struct console *co, const char *b, } else { r = cons_ops[index]->put_chars(vtermnos[index], c, i); if (r <= 0) { - /* throw away chars on error */ - i = 0; + /* throw away characters on error + * but spin in case of -EAGAIN */ + if (r != -EAGAIN) + i = 0; } else if (r > 0) { i -= r; if (i > 0) @@ -447,7 +449,7 @@ static int hvc_push(struct hvc_struct *hp) n = hp->ops->put_chars(hp->vtermno, hp->outbuf, hp->n_outbuf); if (n <= 0) { - if (n == 0) { + if (n == 0 || n == -EAGAIN) { hp->do_wakeup = 1; return 0; } |