Re: [PATCH] virtio_console: Add support for multiple ports for generic guest and host communication

From: Christian Borntraeger
Date: Tue Sep 29 2009 - 07:40:47 EST


Am Dienstag 29 September 2009 13:02:51 schrieb Christian Borntraeger:
> I took a dump and had a look. It looks that this message thing is indeed
> not the problem. Our early_put_chars method was marked as __init and the
> old code replaced the put_chars method quickly enough to never make a
> problem. Removing the __init from early_put_chars solved this kernel bug,
> but the tty performance is now horribly slow. I will test, if the
> put_chars method is replaced at all.

I can confirm that your patch changes virtio_console in a way, that the
early_put_chars function is not replaced by the final one, but I dont see why.

Christian
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