Hi all,
How is this going?
http://www.archivum.info/[email protected]/2008-02/msg00169.html
I use serial as guest's default stdio on powerpc platform.
When displaying a number of characters, e.g. cat a big ascii file,
the serial always hangs as it encounters overwhelming interrupts,
and then complains "serial8250: too much work for irq 42".
The problem is that:
serial in qemu generate an interrupt on every output character,
while Linux driver reads serial data in a loop but gives up after a fixed number (256) of iterations.
So if serial output more than 256 characters in a short time, the serial die.
I had to use the patch below to get it worked around.
So what is the best way to solve it?
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diff --git a/drivers/serial/8250.c b/drivers/serial/8250.c index be95e55..af3e569 100644
--- a/drivers/serial/8250.c
+++ b/drivers/serial/8250.c
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ static unsigned int nr_uarts = CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_RUNTIME_UARTS;
#define DEBUG_INTR(fmt...) do { } while (0)
#endif
-#define PASS_LIMIT 256
+#define PASS_LIMIT 65536
/*
* We default to IRQ0 for the "no irq" hack. Some
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