Re: [RFC PATCH 2/4] vhost: add byteswap routines

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On Wed, 29 Oct 2014 09:38:43 +0100
Cédric Le Goater <clg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This patch adds a few helper routines around get_user and put_user
> to ease byteswapping.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> I am not sure these routines belong to this file. There is room for 
> improvement to remove the ugly  switch (sizeof(*(ptr))). Please 
> comment !
> 
>  drivers/vhost/vhost.c |   93 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 93 insertions(+)
> 

I'm wondering whether it would be a good idea to introduce generic
{get,put}_user_reversed() routines.

That way, you would push the switch (sizeof(*(ptr)) into uaccess code,
where it needs to be done anyway. It also makes it possible to add
optimizations there.

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