Re: [PATCH v3] KVM: Specify byte order for KVM_EXIT_MMIO

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On 01/28/2014 05:28 PM, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> The KVM API documentation is not clear about the semantics of the data
> field on the mmio struct on the kvm_run struct.
>
> This has become problematic when supporting ARM guests on big-endian
> host systems with guests of both endianness types, because it is unclear
> how the data should be exported to user space.
>
> This should not break with existing implementations as all supported
> existing implementations of known user space applications (QEMU and
> kvmtools for virtio) only support default endianness of the
> architectures on the host side.
>
> Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@xxxxxxx>


Alex

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