tty: hvc: hvc_poll() fix read loop hang
authorNicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Sun, 9 Sep 2018 05:39:14 +0000 (15:39 +1000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 10 Sep 2018 16:04:31 +0000 (18:04 +0200)
Commit ec97eaad1383 ("tty: hvc: hvc_poll() break hv read loop") causes
the virtio console to hang at times (e.g., if you paste a bunch of
characters to it.

The reason is that get_chars must return 0 before we can be sure the
driver will kick or poll input again, but this change only scheduled a
poll if get_chars had returned a full count. Change this to poll on
any > 0 count.

Reported-by: Matteo Croce <mcroce@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
Tested-by: Matteo Croce <mcroce@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
Tested-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_console.c

index 5414c4a87bea3980eba7c2fce8e9896ff919cbef..c917749708d2cb1c4b6618d4715400522b4a0c0e 100644 (file)
@@ -717,10 +717,13 @@ static int __hvc_poll(struct hvc_struct *hp, bool may_sleep)
 #endif /* CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ */
                tty_insert_flip_char(&hp->port, buf[i], 0);
        }
-       if (n == count)
-               poll_mask |= HVC_POLL_READ;
        read_total = n;
 
+       /*
+        * Latency break, schedule another poll immediately.
+        */
+       poll_mask |= HVC_POLL_READ;
+
  out:
        /* Wakeup write queue if necessary */
        if (hp->do_wakeup) {