From f5316b4aea024da9266d740322a5481657f6ce59 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jason Wessel Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 21:04:22 -0500 Subject: kgdb,8250,pl011: Return immediately from console poll The design of the kdb shell requires that every device that can provide input to kdb have a polling routine that exits immediately if there is no character available. This is required in order to get the page scrolling mechanism working. Changing the kernel debugger I/O API to require all polling character routines to exit immediately if there is no data allows the kernel debugger to process multiple input channels. NO_POLL_CHAR will be the return code to the polling routine when ever there is no character available. CC: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel --- drivers/serial/8250.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/serial/8250.c') diff --git a/drivers/serial/8250.c b/drivers/serial/8250.c index 2b1ea3d4c4f4..891e1dd65f24 100644 --- a/drivers/serial/8250.c +++ b/drivers/serial/8250.c @@ -1891,8 +1891,8 @@ static int serial8250_get_poll_char(struct uart_port *port) struct uart_8250_port *up = (struct uart_8250_port *)port; unsigned char lsr = serial_inp(up, UART_LSR); - while (!(lsr & UART_LSR_DR)) - lsr = serial_inp(up, UART_LSR); + if (!(lsr & UART_LSR_DR)) + return NO_POLL_CHAR; return serial_inp(up, UART_RX); } -- cgit v1.2.3