From d4a8bb04cc7fd7dbab6501e16b2f4d8a9a92acac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 22:37:04 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] launch: Don't initialize all UARTs (serial ports).
This doesn't save very much time, perhaps under 1ms, but it avoids
some useless scanning.
(cherry picked from commit d76129aa0cca856994c1a65b55dc18d2a2049d34)
---
src/launch.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/src/launch.c b/src/launch.c
index 9f5b14f..04b0e94 100644
--- a/src/launch.c
+++ b/src/launch.c
@@ -340,6 +340,7 @@ guestfs_int_appliance_command_line (guestfs_h *g, const char *appliance_dev,
" printk.time=1" /* display timestamp before kernel messages */
" cgroup_disable=memory" /* saves us about 5 MB of RAM */
" usbcore.nousb" /* disable USB, only saves about 1ms */
+ " 8250.nr_uarts=1" /* don't scan all 8250 UARTS */
"%s" /* root=appliance_dev */
" %s" /* selinux */
" %s" /* quiet/verbose */
--
2.7.4