[PATCH] hvc_console: fix dropping of characters when output byte channel is full
Andrew Morton
akpm at linux-foundation.org
Wed Sep 15 05:17:21 EST 2010
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:45:21 -0500
Timur Tabi <timur at freescale.com> wrote:
> hvc_console_print() calls the HVC client driver's put_chars() callback
> to write some characters to the console. If the callback returns 0, that
> indicates that no characters were written (perhaps the output buffer is
> full), but hvc_console_print() treats that as an error and discards the
> rest of the buffer.
>
> So change hvc_console_print() to just loop and call put_chars() again if it
> returns a 0 return code.
Seems rather dangerous. The upper layer will sit there chewing 100%
CPU for as long as the lower layer is congested.
> This change makes hvc_console_print() behave more like hvc_push(), which
> does check for a 0 return code and re-schedules itself.
Yes, hvc_push() reschedules. It doesn't sit in a tight loop burning
electrons!
Can we do something safer&smarter here?
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