Re: [PATCH v6 6/8] virtio: add explicit big-endian support to memory accessors

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On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 02:26:24PM +0200, Greg Kurz wrote:
> The current memory accessors logic is:
> - little endian if little_endian
> - native endian (i.e. no byteswap) if !little_endian
> 
> If we want to fully support cross-endian vhost, we also need to be
> able to convert to big endian.
> 
> Instead of changing the little_endian argument to some 3-value enum, this
> patch changes the logic to:
> - little endian if little_endian
> - big endian if !little_endian
> 
> The native endian case is handled by all users with a trivial helper. This
> patch doesn't change any functionality, nor it does add overhead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <gkurz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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