Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH] virtio-pci: fix host notifiers on bi-endian architectures

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On Thu, 12 Mar 2015 09:18:38 +1100
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 2015-03-11 at 23:03 +0100, Greg Kurz wrote:
> 
> > /* The host notifier will be swapped in adjust_endianness() according to the
> >  * target default endianness. We need to negate this swap if the device uses
> >  * an endianness that is not the default (ppc64le for example).
> >  */
> > 
> > > > +static uint16_t cpu_to_host_notifier16(VirtIODevice *vdev, uint16_t val)
> > > > +{
> > > > +    return virtio_is_big_endian(vdev) ? val : bswap16(val);
> > > > +}
> 
> But but but ... The above ... won't it do things like break x86 ? Ie,
> shouldn't we swap only if TARGET_BIG_ENDIAN and !virtio_is_big_endian ?
> Or better, "fixed target endian" ^ "virtio endian" to cover all cases ?
> 

Yeah you're right, it's a mess :)

To avoid virtio-pci.o being built per target, we can use virtio_default_endian()
instead (to be exported from virtio.c):

return vdev->device_endian() != virtio_default_endian() ? val : bswap16(val);

I shall test on x86 and post a v2.

Thanks.

--
G

> Cheers,
> Ben.
> 
> > > >  static int virtio_pci_set_host_notifier_internal(VirtIOPCIProxy *proxy,
> > > >                                                   int n, bool assign, bool set_handler)
> > > >  {
> > > > @@ -150,10 +155,12 @@ static int virtio_pci_set_host_notifier_internal(VirtIOPCIProxy *proxy,
> > > >          }
> > > >          virtio_queue_set_host_notifier_fd_handler(vq, true, set_handler);
> > > >          memory_region_add_eventfd(&proxy->bar, VIRTIO_PCI_QUEUE_NOTIFY, 2,
> > > > -                                  true, n, notifier);
> > > > +                                  true, cpu_to_host_notifier16(vdev, n),
> > > > +                                  notifier);
> > > >      } else {
> > > >          memory_region_del_eventfd(&proxy->bar, VIRTIO_PCI_QUEUE_NOTIFY, 2,
> > > > -                                  true, n, notifier);
> > > > +                                  true, cpu_to_host_notifier16(vdev, n),
> > > > +                                  notifier);
> > > >          virtio_queue_set_host_notifier_fd_handler(vq, false, false);
> > > >          event_notifier_cleanup(notifier);
> > > >      }
> > > 
> > 
> 
> 

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