Re: [PATCHv6 0/3] virtio_console: Add rproc_serial device

[Amit Shah]

On (Tue) 25 Sep 2012 [15:47:14], sjur.brandeland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Sjur Brændeland <sjur.brandeland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> I thought rebasing rproc_serial to linux-next was going to be trivial.
> But when starting the merge I realized that I had to refactor the
> the patches from  Masami Hiramatsu. The splice support has the same issue
> as I faced, with different type of buffers in the out_vq.
> So I ended up refactoring the splice functionality. The code
> size got smaller so hopefully this a step in the right direction.
> 
> This refactoring also make introduction of rproc_serial cleaner.
> 
> As requested I also added a patch for not initializing buffers.
> 
> I have tested the VIRTIO_CONSOLE device by looping large amount of data
> through character device and tty, with lockdep and slub-debug on.
> This looks stable for me. I've also done a simple test of splice.

Thanks; I just passed these patches through my testsuite and things
are working fine.  I'll review them in some time.

		Amit
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