[Xen-devel] [PATCH] serial: don't waste space allocated for the tx buffer(s)

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

We're allocating minimally a full page, so no reason to not also use
all that space.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>

--- a/xen/drivers/char/serial.c
+++ b/xen/drivers/char/serial.c
@@ -483,8 +483,8 @@ void __init serial_async_transmit(struct
     BUG_ON(!port->driver->tx_empty);
     if ( port->txbuf != NULL )
         return;
-    if ( serial_txbufsz < 512 )
-        serial_txbufsz = 512;
+    if ( serial_txbufsz < PAGE_SIZE )
+        serial_txbufsz = PAGE_SIZE;
     while ( serial_txbufsz & (serial_txbufsz - 1) )
         serial_txbufsz &= serial_txbufsz - 1;
     port->txbuf = alloc_xenheap_pages(

Attachment: serial-txbuf-page.patch
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