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hvc_console: Improve tty/console put_chars handling
authorHendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tue, 5 Jul 2011 21:50:18 +0000 (21:50 +0000)
committerPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Fri, 17 Aug 2012 19:35:17 +0000 (15:35 -0400)
commita025a0064309ef1a73260b29995981db7485ed2a
treef7658cb53f63f2d34f7ea91387434adc952184e1
parentf0181a142334064ca41976a72e6035222e89cb86
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>
[PG: map drivers/tty/hvc/ --> drivers/char for v2.6.34 baseline]

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
drivers/char/hvc_console.c