[01/15] powerpc/powernv: opal_put_chars partial write fix

Michael Ellerman patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Tue Jul 24 23:59:47 AEST 2018


On Mon, 2018-04-30 at 14:55:44 UTC, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> The intention here is to consume and discard the remaining buffer
> upon error. This works if there has not been a previous partial write.
> If there has been, then total_len is no longer total number of bytes
> to copy. total_len is always "bytes left to copy", so it should be
> added to written bytes.
> 
> This code may not be exercised any more if partial writes will not be
> hit, but this is a small bugfix before a larger change.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>

Patches 1-9 applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/bd90284cc6c1c9e8e48c8eadd0c795

cheers


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