xen/hvc: make sure console output is always emitted, with explicit polling
authorJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:28:21 +0000 (15:28 +0900)
committerJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Tue, 3 Nov 2009 19:05:51 +0000 (11:05 -0800)
We never want to rely on the hvc workqueue to emit output, because the
most interesting output is when the kernel is broken.  This will
improve oops/crash/console message for better debugging.

Instead, we force-poll until all output is emitted.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Stable Kernel <stable@kernel.org>

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