tree aab5c73bbcd799781b8b27f7173c3e726ea403be
parent 56ce9e2b2463b3b257098aa966586701d9967f1e
author Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com> 1223939570 +0000
committer Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> 1224633595 +1100

hvc_console: Fix loop if put_char() returns 0

If put_char() routine of a hvc console backend returns 0, then the
hvc console starts looping in the following scenarios:

1. hvc_console_print()
	If put_char() returns 0 then the while loop may loop forever.
	I have added the missing check for 0 to throw away console messages.

2. khvcd may loop:
	The thread calls hvc_poll() --> hvc_push()... if there are still
	buffered data then the HVC_POLL_WRITE bit is set and causes the
	khvcd thread to loop (if yield() returns immediately).

	However, instead of looping, the khvcd thread could sleep for
	MIN_TIMEOUT (doing the same as for get_chars()).
	The MIN_TIMEOUT is set if hvc_push() was not able to write
	data to the backend. If data has been written, the timeout is
	set to 0 to immediately re-schedule hvc_poll().

Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> (virtio_console)
Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>