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From: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Cc: Max Staudt <mstaudt@suse.de>, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 8250: option 'force_polling' for buggy IRQs
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 10:23:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160729102335.2dbe3cad@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mvl1hahu.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org>

> Serial consoles are already polled for output.  So nothing should
> care until userspace starts, and the full serial driver initializes.

At which point it hangs

> So I suspect either "irqfixup" or "irqpoll" would handle this for you.
> If not I am certain a small tweak to some of that code would work.

irqfixup won't usually help but irqpoll with HZ=1000 ought to, although
it has its own set of problems because not all devices with non shared
IRQ lines take kindly to irqpoll.

Alan

  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-29  9:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-25 17:36 [PATCH] 8250: option 'force_polling' for buggy IRQs Max Staudt
2016-07-25 17:47 ` Greg KH
2016-07-26 11:42   ` Max Staudt
2016-07-26 15:08     ` Greg KH
2016-07-26 16:18       ` Max Staudt
2016-07-27 12:09         ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-07-27 12:14           ` Max Staudt
2016-07-27 13:33             ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-07-27 20:01               ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-07-28  9:59               ` Max Staudt
2016-07-28 14:47                 ` Greg KH
2016-07-28 16:01                   ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-07-28 18:40                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2016-07-29  9:23                   ` One Thousand Gnomes [this message]
2016-07-29  9:58                     ` Max Staudt
2016-07-29 17:38                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2016-08-01 15:27                         ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-07-25 18:19 ` kbuild test robot
2016-07-26 11:47   ` [PATCHv2] " Max Staudt
2016-07-26 11:54   ` [PATCHv3] " Max Staudt

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