linux/debian/patches-rt/0168-rt-Improve-the-serial-console-PASS_LIMIT.patch

From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:05:54 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 168/290] rt: Improve the serial console PASS_LIMIT
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Origin: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/rt/linux-stable-rt.git/commit?id=6cb957cb6dd7593e888563c6d3dc8ddfc96d1179

Beyond the warning:

 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250.c:1613:6: warning: unused variable ‘pass_counter’ [-Wunused-variable]

the solution of just looping infinitely was ugly - up it to 1 million to
give it a chance to continue in some really ugly situation.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
---
 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c
index 8fe3d0ed229e..a2baac4c8b63 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c
@@ -54,7 +54,16 @@ static struct uart_driver serial8250_reg;
 
 static unsigned int skip_txen_test; /* force skip of txen test at init time */
 
-#define PASS_LIMIT	512
+/*
+ * On -rt we can have a more delays, and legitimately
+ * so - so don't drop work spuriously and spam the
+ * syslog:
+ */
+#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT_FULL
+# define PASS_LIMIT	1000000
+#else
+# define PASS_LIMIT	512
+#endif
 
 #include <asm/serial.h>
 /*