When being restored from qemu, the kvm_get_htab_header are in native endian, but the ptes are big endian. This patch fixes restore on a KVM LE host. Qemu also needs a fix for this : http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-ppc/2014-11/msg00008.html Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Gregory Kurz <gkurz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Tested on 3.18-rc5 with LE and BE host. v2: add be64 local variables to be friendly with sparse arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_hv.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux-3.18-hv.git/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_hv.c =================================================================== --- linux-3.18-hv.git.orig/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_hv.c +++ linux-3.18-hv.git/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_hv.c @@ -1539,9 +1539,15 @@ static ssize_t kvm_htab_write(struct fil hptp = (__be64 *)(kvm->arch.hpt_virt + (i * HPTE_SIZE)); lbuf = (unsigned long __user *)buf; for (j = 0; j < hdr.n_valid; ++j) { + __be64 hpte_v; + __be64 hpte_r; + err = -EFAULT; - if (__get_user(v, lbuf) || __get_user(r, lbuf + 1)) + if (__get_user(hpte_v, lbuf) || + __get_user(hpte_r, lbuf + 1)) goto out; + v = be64_to_cpu(hpte_v); + r = be64_to_cpu(hpte_r); err = -EINVAL; if (!(v & HPTE_V_VALID)) goto out; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm-ppc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html