Hi,
This patchset allows vhost to be used with legacy virtio when guest and host
have a different endianness.
Patches 1-6 remain the same as the previous post. Patch 7 was heavily changed
according to MST's comments.
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Greg Kurz (7):
virtio: introduce virtio_is_little_endian() helper
tun: add tun_is_little_endian() helper
macvtap: introduce macvtap_is_little_endian() helper
vringh: introduce vringh_is_little_endian() helper
vhost: introduce vhost_is_little_endian() helper
virtio: add explicit big-endian support to memory accessors
vhost: feature to set the vring endianness
drivers/net/macvtap.c | 11 ++++++--
drivers/net/tun.c | 11 ++++++--
drivers/vhost/Kconfig | 10 +++++++
drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 55 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/vhost/vhost.h | 34 +++++++++++++++++++----
include/linux/virtio_byteorder.h | 24 ++++++++++-------
include/linux/virtio_config.h | 19 +++++++++----
include/linux/vringh.h | 19 +++++++++----
include/uapi/linux/vhost.h | 5 +++
9 files changed, 156 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
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Greg
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