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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Qemu serial patch

To: Ian Pratt <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Yang, Xiaowei" <xiaowei.yang@xxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Qemu serial patch
From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 08:57:11 +0100
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On 24/9/06 23:13, "Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> -            qemu_chr_write(s->chr, &ch, 1);
> +            if (qemu_chr_write(s->chr, &ch, 1) == -1)
> +                fprintf(logfile, "serial write error\n");
>              s->thr_ipending = 1;
>              s->lsr |= UART_LSR_THRE;
>              s->lsr |= UART_LSR_TEMT;
> 
> Doesn't the above mean we still drop the character? Shouldn't we be
> storing the character somewhere and retrying it later? We should
> probably also clear the tx ready bit (bit 5) in the UART's Line Status
> Register. We should then retry the write in ~100ms, and set the tx ready
> bit again.

There's not even any need to poll, if the serial fd is in the set of
writefd's. Buffering internally to some reasonable limit and then clearing
THRE until the fd appears in the pollset and some FIFO space is cleared is
the right thing to do.

 -- Keir



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