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Commit 187cfc43 authored by Benjamin Herrenschmidt's avatar Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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hvc_console: Remove tty->low_latency on pseries backends



The hvcs and hvsi backends both set tty->low_latency to one, along
with more or less scary comments regarding bugs or races that would
happen if not doing so.

However, they also both call tty_flip_buffer_push() in conexts where
it's illegal to do so since some recent tty changes (or at least it
may have been illegal always but it nows blows) when low_latency is
set (ie, hard interrupt or with spinlock held and irqs disabled).

This removes the setting for now to get them back to working condition,
we'll have to address the races described in the comments separately
if they are still an issue (some of this might have been fixed already).

Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
parent d301a9f3
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