From: Greg Kurz <gkurz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 12:42:35 +0100 > The vq->is_le field is used to fix endianness when accessing the vring via > the cpu_to_vhost16() and vhost16_to_cpu() helpers in the following cases: > > 1) host is big endian and device is modern virtio > > 2) host has cross-endian support and device is legacy virtio with a different > endianness than the host > > Both cases rely on the VHOST_SET_FEATURES ioctl, but 2) also needs the > VHOST_SET_VRING_ENDIAN ioctl to be called by userspace. Since vq->is_le > is only needed when the backend is active, it was decided to set it at > backend start. > > This is currently done in vhost_init_used()->vhost_init_is_le() but it > obfuscates the core vhost code. This patch moves the is_le setup to a > dedicated function that is called from the backend code. > > Note vhost_net is the only backend that can pass vq->private_data == NULL to > vhost_init_used(), hence the "if (sock)" branch. > > No behaviour change. > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <gkurz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Michael, I'm assuming that you will be the one taking this. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
