On Fri, 30 Oct 2015 12:42:35 +0100
Greg Kurz <[email protected]> wrote:
> The vq->is_le field is used to fix endianness when accessing the vring via
> the cpu_to_vhost16() and vhost16_to_cpu() helpers in the following cases:
>
> 1) host is big endian and device is modern virtio
>
> 2) host has cross-endian support and device is legacy virtio with a different
> endianness than the host
>
> Both cases rely on the VHOST_SET_FEATURES ioctl, but 2) also needs the
> VHOST_SET_VRING_ENDIAN ioctl to be called by userspace. Since vq->is_le
> is only needed when the backend is active, it was decided to set it at
> backend start.
>
> This is currently done in vhost_init_used()->vhost_init_is_le() but it
> obfuscates the core vhost code. This patch moves the is_le setup to a
> dedicated function that is called from the backend code.
>
> Note vhost_net is the only backend that can pass vq->private_data == NULL to
> vhost_init_used(), hence the "if (sock)" branch.
>
> No behaviour change.
>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <[email protected]>
> ---
> drivers/vhost/net.c | 6 ++++++
> drivers/vhost/scsi.c | 3 +++
> drivers/vhost/test.c | 2 ++
> drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 12 +++++++-----
> drivers/vhost/vhost.h | 1 +
> 5 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
Makes sense.
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <[email protected]>