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| author | Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2011-07-05 23:50:18 +0200 |
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| committer | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2011-07-19 07:13:05 +0200 |
| commit | 8c2381af0d3ef62a681dac5a141b6dabb27bf2e1 (patch) | |
| tree | 42cd8aaecca37a7fce9d81d20fcd78f9d86647b1 /arch | |
| parent | powerpc/kdump: Fix timeout in crash_kexec_wait_realmode (diff) | |
| download | linux-8c2381af0d3ef62a681dac5a141b6dabb27bf2e1.tar.xz linux-8c2381af0d3ef62a681dac5a141b6dabb27bf2e1.zip | |
hvc_console: Improve tty/console put_chars handling
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>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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