if (!tmp)
                return -ENOMEM;
 
-
        spin_lock_irqsave(&rtasd_log_lock, s);
        /* if it's 0, then we know we got the last one (the one in NVRAM) */
-       if (rtas_log_size == 0 && logging_enabled)
-               nvram_clear_error_log();
-       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rtasd_log_lock, s);
+       while (rtas_log_size == 0) {
+               if (file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK) {
+                       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rtasd_log_lock, s);
+                       error = -EAGAIN;
+                       goto out;
+               }
 
+               if (!logging_enabled) {
+                       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rtasd_log_lock, s);
+                       error = -ENODATA;
+                       goto out;
+               }
+               nvram_clear_error_log();
 
-       error = wait_event_interruptible(rtas_log_wait, rtas_log_size);
-       if (error)
-               goto out;
+               spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rtasd_log_lock, s);
+               error = wait_event_interruptible(rtas_log_wait, rtas_log_size);
+               if (error)
+                       goto out;
+               spin_lock_irqsave(&rtasd_log_lock, s);
+       }
 
-       spin_lock_irqsave(&rtasd_log_lock, s);
        offset = rtas_error_log_buffer_max * (rtas_log_start & LOG_NUMBER_MASK);
        memcpy(tmp, &rtas_log_buf[offset], count);