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)
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Tue, 19 Jul 2011 05:13:05 +0000 (15:13 +1000)
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>

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