Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754375AbaJVRqB (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Oct 2014 13:46:01 -0400 Received: from smtp.codeaurora.org ([198.145.11.231]:55996 "EHLO smtp.codeaurora.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754113AbaJVRp7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Oct 2014 13:45:59 -0400 Message-ID: <5447ED53.2030502@codeaurora.org> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 13:45:55 -0400 From: Christopher Covington User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130106 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Rusty Russell , "David S. Miller" , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Alexei Starovoitov , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , "Lad, Prabhakar" , Geert Uytterhoeven , David Drysdale , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Piotr_Kr=F3l?= , Bjarke Istrup Pedersen , Anup Patel , virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v2 01/16] virtio: memory access APIs References: <1413992894-22976-1-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com> <1413992894-22976-2-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <1413992894-22976-2-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Michael, On 10/22/2014 11:50 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > virtio 1.0 makes all memory structures LE, so > we need APIs to conditionally do a byteswap on BE > architectures. > > To make it easier to check code statically, > add virtio specific types for multi-byte integers > in memory. > > Add low level wrappers that do a byteswap conditionally, these will be > useful e.g. for vhost. Add high level wrappers that will (in the > future) query device endian-ness and act accordingly. > > At the moment, stub them out and assume native endian-ness everywhere. > > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin > --- > include/linux/virtio_config.h | 16 +++++++++++++ > include/uapi/linux/virtio_ring.h | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++-------------------- > include/uapi/linux/Kbuild | 1 + > 3 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/include/linux/virtio_config.h b/include/linux/virtio_config.h > index 7f4ef66..d38d3c2 100644 > --- a/include/linux/virtio_config.h > +++ b/include/linux/virtio_config.h > @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ > #include > #include > #include > +#include What patch creates this file? > #include > > /** > @@ -152,6 +153,21 @@ int virtqueue_set_affinity(struct virtqueue *vq, int cpu) > return 0; > } > > +/* Memory accessors */ > +#define DEFINE_VIRTIO_XX_TO_CPU(bits) \ > +static inline u##bits virtio##bits##_to_cpu(struct virtio_device *vdev, __virtio##bits val) \ > +{ \ > + return __virtio##bits##_to_cpu(false, val); \ > +} \ > +static inline __virtio##bits cpu_to_virtio##bits(struct virtio_device *vdev, u##bits val) \ > +{ \ > + return __cpu_to_virtio##bits(false, val); \ > +} > + > +DEFINE_VIRTIO_XX_TO_CPU(16) > +DEFINE_VIRTIO_XX_TO_CPU(32) > +DEFINE_VIRTIO_XX_TO_CPU(64) > + > /* Config space accessors. */ > #define virtio_cread(vdev, structname, member, ptr) \ > do { \ > diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_ring.h b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_ring.h > index a99f9b7..6c00632 100644 > --- a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_ring.h > +++ b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_ring.h > @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ > * > * Copyright Rusty Russell IBM Corporation 2007. */ > #include > +#include > > /* This marks a buffer as continuing via the next field. */ > #define VRING_DESC_F_NEXT 1 > @@ -61,32 +62,32 @@ > /* Virtio ring descriptors: 16 bytes. These can chain together via "next". */ > struct vring_desc { > /* Address (guest-physical). */ > - __u64 addr; > + __virtio64 addr; > /* Length. */ > - __u32 len; > + __virtio32 len; > /* The flags as indicated above. */ > - __u16 flags; > + __virtio16 flags; > /* We chain unused descriptors via this, too */ > - __u16 next; > + __virtio16 next; > }; How does __virtio64 differ from __le64? Thanks, Chris -- Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/