As its name suggests, ChardevClass.chr_sync_read is supposed to do a blocking read. The only implementation of it, tcp_chr_sync_read, does set the underlying io channel to the blocking mode indeed.
Therefore a failure return with EAGAIN is not expected from this call. So do not retry it in qemu_chr_fe_read_all; instead place an assertion that it doesn't fail with EAGAIN. Signed-off-by: Roman Kagan <rvka...@yandex-team.ru> --- chardev/char-fe.c | 7 ++----- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/chardev/char-fe.c b/chardev/char-fe.c index 7789f7be9c..f94efe928e 100644 --- a/chardev/char-fe.c +++ b/chardev/char-fe.c @@ -68,13 +68,10 @@ int qemu_chr_fe_read_all(CharBackend *be, uint8_t *buf, int len) } while (offset < len) { - retry: res = CHARDEV_GET_CLASS(s)->chr_sync_read(s, buf + offset, len - offset); - if (res == -1 && errno == EAGAIN) { - g_usleep(100); - goto retry; - } + /* ->chr_sync_read should block */ + assert(!(res < 0 && errno == EAGAIN)); if (res == 0) { break; -- 2.33.1