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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: virtio: console: Return -EFAULT on copy_xx_user errors,
	allow larger writes
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:25:08 +1030
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On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:12:37 am Amit Shah wrote:
> 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 pressure on the GFP_KERNEL area.
> 
> Both of these were pointed out by Marcelo.

Applied.

Thanks,
Rusty.