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authorCédric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>2014-06-16 11:51:01 +0200
committerAlexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>2014-08-08 19:25:54 +1000
commit633558ee62202f7ad931732f44df07b5fe6bdd16 (patch)
treee2981f21a83dbb018e4b0c80abcc882a2191080f
parentfd07bd4b157940c1b5af2c2a0e1bffe36396a482 (diff)
downloadpowerpc-633558ee62202f7ad931732f44df07b5fe6bdd16.tar.gz
vhost: Add VHOST_VRING_F_BYTESWAP flag
The VHOST_VRING_F_BYTESWAP flag is used by the host to byteswap data of the vring when the guest and the host have a different endian order. Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> (cherry picked from commit 28936b89d8e5faa76ef424b2ec356c8ee67c884e) Signed-off-by: Scott E. Garfinkle <seg@us.ibm.com>
-rw-r--r--drivers/vhost/vhost.c4
-rw-r--r--drivers/vhost/vhost.h1
-rw-r--r--include/uapi/linux/vhost.h3
3 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
index e1a061e308aee1..c43277ebadd0e7 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
@@ -676,7 +676,8 @@ long vhost_vring_ioctl(struct vhost_dev *d, int ioctl, void __user *argp)
r = -EFAULT;
break;
}
- if (a.flags & ~(0x1 << VHOST_VRING_F_LOG)) {
+ if (a.flags & ~(0x1 << VHOST_VRING_F_LOG |
+ 0x1 << VHOST_VRING_F_BYTESWAP)) {
r = -EOPNOTSUPP;
break;
}
@@ -722,6 +723,7 @@ long vhost_vring_ioctl(struct vhost_dev *d, int ioctl, void __user *argp)
vq->avail = (void __user *)(unsigned long)a.avail_user_addr;
vq->log_addr = a.log_guest_addr;
vq->used = (void __user *)(unsigned long)a.used_user_addr;
+ vq->byteswap = !!(a.flags & (0x1 << VHOST_VRING_F_BYTESWAP));
break;
case VHOST_SET_VRING_KICK:
if (copy_from_user(&f, argp, sizeof f)) {
diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.h b/drivers/vhost/vhost.h
index 64adcf99ff3389..2e715623cdb068 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.h
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.h
@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ struct vhost_virtqueue {
/* Log write descriptors */
void __user *log_base;
struct vhost_log *log;
+ bool byteswap;
};
struct vhost_dev {
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/vhost.h b/include/uapi/linux/vhost.h
index bb6a5b4cb3c558..17854fae1df0bd 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/vhost.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/vhost.h
@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ struct vhost_vring_addr {
/* Flag values: */
/* Whether log address is valid. If set enables logging. */
#define VHOST_VRING_F_LOG 0
+ /* Whether vring memory accesses should be byte-swapped.
+ * required when the guest has a different endianess */
+#define VHOST_VRING_F_BYTESWAP 1
/* Start of array of descriptors (virtually contiguous) */
__u64 desc_user_addr;