hvc_console: Improve tty/console put_chars handling
commitbf807eef020a66ee0597cd7996cf6d8bfb06945d
authorHendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tue, 5 Jul 2011 21:50:18 +0000 (5 21:50 +0000)
committerAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Mon, 1 Aug 2011 20:55:01 +0000 (1 13:55 -0700)
tree50f69d8c9dbdaeeb37e2b9798ea1d3f77670be43
parentbf7b6215667dd484edf6aa03b764927afc6a6c76
hvc_console: Improve tty/console put_chars handling

[ upstream commit 8c2381af0d3ef62a681dac5a141b6dabb27bf2e1 ]

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>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
drivers/char/hvc_console.c