Re: [PATCH v10 3/5] KVM: stats: Add documentation for binary statistics interface

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Hi Greg,

On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 12:52 AM Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 04:41:44AM +0000, Jing Zhang wrote:
> > +     struct kvm_stats_desc {
> > +             __u32 flags;
> > +             __s16 exponent;
> > +             __u16 size;
> > +             __u32 offset;
> > +             __u32 unused;
> > +             char name[0];
> > +     };
> > +
> > +The ``flags`` field contains the type and unit of the statistics data described
> > +by this descriptor. The following flags are supported:
> > +
> > +Bits 0-3 of ``flags`` encode the type:
>
> <snip>
>
> As flags is a bit field, what is the endian of it?  Native or LE or BE?
> I'm guessing "cpu native", but you should be explicit as userspace will
> have to deal with this somehow.
Sure, will add clarification for endianness.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

Thanks,
Jing



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