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authorJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>2009-10-20 15:28:21 +0900
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2009-11-09 16:22:40 -0800
commitb318606e41620d2fee78444ae54533a323108e2b (patch)
tree569f5cd0eef502de60d2004e2f2fb60177148dda
parente05947b4e09d7cc3e4811a3fe0e6a1d83a9805cd (diff)
xen/hvc: make sure console output is always emitted, with explicit polling
commit 7825cf10e31c64ece3cac66fb01a742f1094da51 upstream. 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> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/hvc_xen.c25
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/hvc_xen.c b/drivers/char/hvc_xen.c
index eba999f8598d..ae453cc25a66 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hvc_xen.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hvc_xen.c
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ static inline void notify_daemon(void)
notify_remote_via_evtchn(xen_start_info->console.domU.evtchn);
}
-static int write_console(uint32_t vtermno, const char *data, int len)
+static int __write_console(const char *data, int len)
{
struct xencons_interface *intf = xencons_interface();
XENCONS_RING_IDX cons, prod;
@@ -76,6 +76,29 @@ static int write_console(uint32_t vtermno, const char *data, int len)
return sent;
}
+static int write_console(uint32_t vtermno, const char *data, int len)
+{
+ int ret = len;
+
+ /*
+ * Make sure the whole buffer is emitted, polling if
+ * necessary. We don't ever want to rely on the hvc daemon
+ * because the most interesting console output is when the
+ * kernel is crippled.
+ */
+ while (len) {
+ int sent = __write_console(data, len);
+
+ data += sent;
+ len -= sent;
+
+ if (unlikely(len))
+ HYPERVISOR_sched_op(SCHEDOP_yield, NULL);
+ }
+
+ return ret;
+}
+
static int read_console(uint32_t vtermno, char *buf, int len)
{
struct xencons_interface *intf = xencons_interface();