On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 01:45:55PM -0400, Christopher Covington wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> On 10/22/2014 11:50 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > virtio 1.0 makes all memory structures LE, so
> > we need APIs to conditionally do a byteswap on BE
> > architectures.
> >
> > To make it easier to check code statically,
> > add virtio specific types for multi-byte integers
> > in memory.
> >
> > Add low level wrappers that do a byteswap conditionally, these will be
> > useful e.g. for vhost. Add high level wrappers that will (in the
> > future) query device endian-ness and act accordingly.
> >
> > At the moment, stub them out and assume native endian-ness everywhere.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > include/linux/virtio_config.h | 16 +++++++++++++
> > include/uapi/linux/virtio_ring.h | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
> > include/uapi/linux/Kbuild | 1 +
> > 3 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/linux/virtio_config.h b/include/linux/virtio_config.h
> > index 7f4ef66..d38d3c2 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/virtio_config.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/virtio_config.h
> > @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
> > #include <linux/err.h>
> > #include <linux/bug.h>
> > #include <linux/virtio.h>
> > +#include <linux/virtio_byteorder.h>
>
> What patch creates this file?
Oops I forgot to git add it.
Will resend.
> > #include <uapi/linux/virtio_config.h>
> >
> > /**
> > @@ -152,6 +153,21 @@ int virtqueue_set_affinity(struct virtqueue *vq, int cpu)
> > return 0;
> > }
> >
> > +/* Memory accessors */
> > +#define DEFINE_VIRTIO_XX_TO_CPU(bits) \
> > +static inline u##bits virtio##bits##_to_cpu(struct virtio_device *vdev, __virtio##bits val) \
> > +{ \
> > + return __virtio##bits##_to_cpu(false, val); \
> > +} \
> > +static inline __virtio##bits cpu_to_virtio##bits(struct virtio_device *vdev, u##bits val) \
> > +{ \
> > + return __cpu_to_virtio##bits(false, val); \
> > +}
> > +
> > +DEFINE_VIRTIO_XX_TO_CPU(16)
> > +DEFINE_VIRTIO_XX_TO_CPU(32)
> > +DEFINE_VIRTIO_XX_TO_CPU(64)
> > +
> > /* Config space accessors. */
> > #define virtio_cread(vdev, structname, member, ptr) \
> > do { \
> > diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_ring.h b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_ring.h
> > index a99f9b7..6c00632 100644
> > --- a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_ring.h
> > +++ b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_ring.h
> > @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
> > *
> > * Copyright Rusty Russell IBM Corporation 2007. */
> > #include <linux/types.h>
> > +#include <linux/virtio_types.h>
> >
> > /* This marks a buffer as continuing via the next field. */
> > #define VRING_DESC_F_NEXT 1
> > @@ -61,32 +62,32 @@
> > /* Virtio ring descriptors: 16 bytes. These can chain together via "next". */
> > struct vring_desc {
> > /* Address (guest-physical). */
> > - __u64 addr;
> > + __virtio64 addr;
> > /* Length. */
> > - __u32 len;
> > + __virtio32 len;
> > /* The flags as indicated above. */
> > - __u16 flags;
> > + __virtio16 flags;
> > /* We chain unused descriptors via this, too */
> > - __u16 next;
> > + __virtio16 next;
> > };
>
> How does __virtio64 differ from __le64?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
__le64 would require cpu_to_le, I wanted to force the use
of our byte swapping macros.
> --
> Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.
> The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum,
> a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
