[PATCH RFC v5 06/19] virtio: endianness checks for virtio 1.0 devices

[Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Add code that checks for the VERSION_1 feature bit in order to make
decisions about the device's endianness. This allows us to support
transitional devices.

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 hw/virtio/virtio.c                |    6 +++++-
 include/hw/virtio/virtio-access.h |    4 ++++
 include/hw/virtio/virtio.h        |    8 ++++++--
 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hw/virtio/virtio.c b/hw/virtio/virtio.c
index 7f74ae5..8f69ffa 100644
--- a/hw/virtio/virtio.c
+++ b/hw/virtio/virtio.c
@@ -881,7 +881,11 @@ static bool virtio_device_endian_needed(void *opaque)
     VirtIODevice *vdev = opaque;
 
     assert(vdev->device_endian != VIRTIO_DEVICE_ENDIAN_UNKNOWN);
-    return vdev->device_endian != virtio_default_endian();
+    if (!virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_F_VERSION_1)) {
+        return vdev->device_endian != virtio_default_endian();
+    }
+    /* Devices conforming to VIRTIO 1.0 or later are always LE. */
+    return vdev->device_endian != VIRTIO_DEVICE_ENDIAN_LITTLE;
 }
 
 static const VMStateDescription vmstate_virtio_device_endian = {
diff --git a/include/hw/virtio/virtio-access.h b/include/hw/virtio/virtio-access.h
index 46456fd..ee28c21 100644
--- a/include/hw/virtio/virtio-access.h
+++ b/include/hw/virtio/virtio-access.h
@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@
 
 static inline bool virtio_access_is_big_endian(VirtIODevice *vdev)
 {
+    if (virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_F_VERSION_1)) {
+        /* Devices conforming to VIRTIO 1.0 or later are always LE. */
+        return false;
+    }
 #if defined(TARGET_IS_BIENDIAN)
     return virtio_is_big_endian(vdev);
 #elif defined(TARGET_WORDS_BIGENDIAN)
diff --git a/include/hw/virtio/virtio.h b/include/hw/virtio/virtio.h
index 08141c7..68c40db 100644
--- a/include/hw/virtio/virtio.h
+++ b/include/hw/virtio/virtio.h
@@ -297,7 +297,11 @@ static inline bool virtio_has_feature(VirtIODevice *vdev, unsigned int fbit)
 
 static inline bool virtio_is_big_endian(VirtIODevice *vdev)
 {
-    assert(vdev->device_endian != VIRTIO_DEVICE_ENDIAN_UNKNOWN);
-    return vdev->device_endian == VIRTIO_DEVICE_ENDIAN_BIG;
+    if (!virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_F_VERSION_1)) {
+        assert(vdev->device_endian != VIRTIO_DEVICE_ENDIAN_UNKNOWN);
+        return vdev->device_endian == VIRTIO_DEVICE_ENDIAN_BIG;
+    }
+    /* Devices conforming to VIRTIO 1.0 or later are always LE. */
+    return false;
 }
 #endif
-- 
1.7.9.5

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