similar to: [PATCH 00/11] (v6) virtio: console: Fixes, new way of discovering ports

Unfortunately there proved to be at least one bug which requires an ABI change, so we're best off not introducing multiport support until 2.6.35. While I generally left the multiport code paths intact, I really wanted to remove the ABI defines from the header, which meant some quite deep cuts. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au> To: Amit Shah <amit.shah at

Unfortunately there proved to be at least one bug which requires an ABI change, so we're best off not introducing multiport support until 2.6.35. While I generally left the multiport code paths intact, I really wanted to remove the ABI defines from the header, which meant some quite deep cuts. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au> To: Amit Shah <amit.shah at

Hey Rusty, These updated patches in the series return -EFAULT on copy_xx_user errors and also move the copy_from_user into fops_write() instead of it being in send_buf. This enables send_buf to just read from kernel buffers, making it simpler. This also allows write()s to write more to the host in one go, removingthe 4k limitation. I do limit the writes to 32k at once to not put too much

Hey Rusty, These updated patches in the series return -EFAULT on copy_xx_user errors and also move the copy_from_user into fops_write() instead of it being in send_buf. This enables send_buf to just read from kernel buffers, making it simpler. This also allows write()s to write more to the host in one go, removingthe 4k limitation. I do limit the writes to 32k at once to not put too much

I run latest sparse from git on virtio drivers (turns out the version I had was rather outdated). This patchset fixes a couple of bugs this uncovered, and adds some annotations to make it sparse-clean. In particular, endian-ness is often tricky, so this patchset enabled endian-ness checks for sparse builds. Michael S. Tsirkin (10): virtio_console: drop unused config fields drm/virtio: fix

I run latest sparse from git on virtio drivers (turns out the version I had was rather outdated). This patchset fixes a couple of bugs this uncovered, and adds some annotations to make it sparse-clean. In particular, endian-ness is often tricky, so this patchset enabled endian-ness checks for sparse builds. Michael S. Tsirkin (10): virtio_console: drop unused config fields drm/virtio: fix

Hello, This is the patch that I have for adding support for multiple ports to virtio_console. It's pretty stable in my testing so far and the memory corruption that I had earlier has been resolved in linux-next so I'm proposing this for inclusion. This currently uses device major number 60 from the experimental range; Alan could you please reserve a new major number for virtio_console?

Hello, This is the patch that I have for adding support for multiple ports to virtio_console. It's pretty stable in my testing so far and the memory corruption that I had earlier has been resolved in linux-next so I'm proposing this for inclusion. This currently uses device major number 60 from the experimental range; Alan could you please reserve a new major number for virtio_console?

Hello all, Here is a new iteration of the patch series that implements a transport for guest and host communications. The code has been updated to reuse the virtio-console device instead of creating a new virtio-serial device. I've tested for compatibility (old qemu & new kernel, new qemu & old kernel, new qemu & new kernel) and it all works fine. There are a few items on my

Hello all, Here is a new iteration of the patch series that implements a transport for guest and host communications. The code has been updated to reuse the virtio-console device instead of creating a new virtio-serial device. I've tested for compatibility (old qemu & new kernel, new qemu & old kernel, new qemu & new kernel) and it all works fine. There are a few items on my

Hello all, Here is a new iteration of the patch series that implements a transport for guest and host communications. I've tested for compatibility (old qemu & new kernel, new qemu & old kernel, new qemu & new kernel) and it all works fine*. There are a few items on my todo list but this works well. New since last send: - live migration support** - write path in the guest

Hello all, Here is a new iteration of the patch series that implements a transport for guest and host communications. I've tested for compatibility (old qemu & new kernel, new qemu & old kernel, new qemu & new kernel) and it all works fine*. There are a few items on my todo list but this works well. New since last send: - live migration support** - write path in the guest

Hello, This patchset is still based on Linus' tree but I'll rebase when Rusty sends out the disable multiport patches. This series reworks the ABI to allow port discovery (only) via the control queue. In addition, it adds support for non-blocking write() support, which means no spinning. This works fine with the recent patches that are on qemu-devel. Also included is removal of

Hello, This patchset is still based on Linus' tree but I'll rebase when Rusty sends out the disable multiport patches. This series reworks the ABI to allow port discovery (only) via the control queue. In addition, it adds support for non-blocking write() support, which means no spinning. This works fine with the recent patches that are on qemu-devel. Also included is removal of

The in-vq operations were protected by a lock, but the out-vq operations were not. This caused panics / errors as described in patch 2. Fix that. The first patch renames the existing cvq_lock to c_ivq_lock to match c_ivq. The second patch introduces the c_ovq_lock for the c_ovq. Please apply. I also believe this is a candidate for stable. v2: * Use spin_lock instead of spin_lock_irq.

The in-vq operations were protected by a lock, but the out-vq operations were not. This caused panics / errors as described in patch 2. Fix that. The first patch renames the existing cvq_lock to c_ivq_lock to match c_ivq. The second patch introduces the c_ovq_lock for the c_ovq. Please apply. I also believe this is a candidate for stable. v2: * Use spin_lock instead of spin_lock_irq.

The in-vq operations were protected by a lock, but the out-vq operations were not. This caused panics / errors as described in patch 2. Fix that. The first patch renames the existing cvq_lock to c_ivq_lock to match c_ivq. The second patch introduces the c_ovq_lock for the c_ovq. Please apply. I also believe this is a candidate for stable. Amit Shah (2): virtio: console: rename cvq_lock

The in-vq operations were protected by a lock, but the out-vq operations were not. This caused panics / errors as described in patch 2. Fix that. The first patch renames the existing cvq_lock to c_ivq_lock to match c_ivq. The second patch introduces the c_ovq_lock for the c_ovq. Please apply. I also believe this is a candidate for stable. Amit Shah (2): virtio: console: rename cvq_lock

Hello all, Here is a new iteration of the patch series that implements a transport for guest and host communications. I've tested for compatibility (old qemu & new kernel, new qemu & old kernel, new qemu & new kernel) and it all works fine. To maintain backward compatibility, the first port to be spawned (port at id 0) is to be a console port, to be bound to hvc. This keeps new

Hello all, Here is a new iteration of the patch series that implements a transport for guest and host communications. I've tested for compatibility (old qemu & new kernel, new qemu & old kernel, new qemu & new kernel) and it all works fine. To maintain backward compatibility, the first port to be spawned (port at id 0) is to be a console port, to be bound to hvc. This keeps new