Re: VirtIO console hangs

[Matteo Croce]

On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 2:35 PM Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 28 Aug 2018 12:54:08 +0000
> Matteo Croce <mcroce@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > With kernel 4.19.0-rc1 virtio_console hangs very often.
> > I can always trigger the bug by pasting some characters in the
> > terminal window, the console will stop receiving keypresses, but I can
> > still see output from the console.
> > Stangely, logging in the VM via SSH and sending lot of data to hvc0,
> > like 'dmesg >/dev/hvc0' will fix the issue until the next paste.
> >
> > I did a git bisect and I've found that this is the offending commit,
> > reverting it fixes it.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > commit ec97eaad1383ab2500fcf9a07ade6044fbcc67f5
> > Author: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Date:   Tue May 1 00:55:54 2018 +1000
> >
> >     tty: hvc: hvc_poll() break hv read loop
>
> Thanks for the report. I can't immediately see what the problem
> is. Can you try get a stack trace of where it is stuck?
>

I tried but didn't get one.

> Perhaps try this patch if you have time (it's a bit of a shot
> in the dark).
>

Yes it seems to fix. Thanks!

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Matteo Croce
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