similar to: [PATCH 0/3] vhost_net: support for cross endian guests

Hi, This patchset allows vhost to be used with legacy virtio when guest and host have a different endianness. It is a complete rework of my initial post. Patches 1 to 5 are preliminary work: we move the endianness check out of all memory accessors to separate functions. Patch 6 changes the semantics of the accessors so that they have explicit big endian support. Patch 7 brings the cross-endian

Hi, This patchset allows vhost to be used with legacy virtio when guest and host have a different endianness. It is a complete rework of my initial post. Patches 1 to 5 are preliminary work: we move the endianness check out of all memory accessors to separate functions. Patch 6 changes the semantics of the accessors so that they have explicit big endian support. Patch 7 brings the cross-endian

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. --- Greg Kurz (7): virtio: introduce virtio_is_little_endian() helper tun: add tun_is_little_endian() helper macvtap: introduce macvtap_is_little_endian()

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. --- Greg Kurz (7): virtio: introduce virtio_is_little_endian() helper tun: add tun_is_little_endian() helper macvtap: introduce macvtap_is_little_endian()

On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 03:17:13PM +0200, Greg Kurz wrote: > This patch brings cross-endian support to vhost when used to implement > legacy virtio devices. Since it is a relatively rare situation, the feature > availability is controlled by a kernel config option (not set by default). > > If cross-endian support is compiled in, vhost abvertises a new feature > to be negotiated

On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 03:17:13PM +0200, Greg Kurz wrote: > This patch brings cross-endian support to vhost when used to implement > legacy virtio devices. Since it is a relatively rare situation, the feature > availability is controlled by a kernel config option (not set by default). > > If cross-endian support is compiled in, vhost abvertises a new feature > to be negotiated

On Wed, 23 Sep 2015 19:45:08 +0100 David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> wrote: > Commit 7d82410950aa ("virtio: add explicit big-endian support to memory > accessors") accidentally changed the virtio_net header used by > AF_PACKET with PACKET_VNET_HDR from host-endian to big-endian. > Hi David, Oops my bad... I obviously overlooked this one when adding

On Wed, 23 Sep 2015 19:45:08 +0100 David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> wrote: > Commit 7d82410950aa ("virtio: add explicit big-endian support to memory > accessors") accidentally changed the virtio_net header used by > AF_PACKET with PACKET_VNET_HDR from host-endian to big-endian. > Hi David, Oops my bad... I obviously overlooked this one when adding

commit 2751c9882b947292fcfb084c4f604e01724af804 ("vhost: cross-endian support for legacy devices") introduced a minor regression: even with cross-endian disabled, and even on LE host, vhost_is_little_endian is checking is_le flag so there's always a branch. To fix, simply check virtio_legacy_is_little_endian first. Cc: Greg Kurz <gkurz at linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:

commit 2751c9882b947292fcfb084c4f604e01724af804 ("vhost: cross-endian support for legacy devices") introduced a minor regression: even with cross-endian disabled, and even on LE host, vhost_is_little_endian is checking is_le flag so there's always a branch. To fix, simply check virtio_legacy_is_little_endian first. Cc: Greg Kurz <gkurz at linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:

Hi, This patchset allows vhost to be used with legacy virtio when guest and host have a different endianness. It is compatible with modern virtio and can be fully compiled out through kernel config. FWIW, I could flawlessly kexec/reboot guests from ppc64 to ppc64le and back. I could also migrate from a ppc64 to a ppc64le host and back. No regressions on x86 as expected. My experimental QEMU tree

Hi, This patchset allows vhost to be used with legacy virtio when guest and host have a different endianness. It is compatible with modern virtio and can be fully compiled out through kernel config. FWIW, I could flawlessly kexec/reboot guests from ppc64 to ppc64le and back. I could also migrate from a ppc64 to a ppc64le host and back. No regressions on x86 as expected. My experimental QEMU tree

On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 02:19:31PM +0200, Greg Kurz wrote: > This patch brings cross-endian support to vhost when used to implement > legacy virtio devices. Since it is a relatively rare situation, the > feature availability is controlled by a kernel config option (not set > by default). > > The ioctls introduced by this patch are for legacy only: virtio 1.0 > devices are

On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 02:19:31PM +0200, Greg Kurz wrote: > This patch brings cross-endian support to vhost when used to implement > legacy virtio devices. Since it is a relatively rare situation, the > feature availability is controlled by a kernel config option (not set > by default). > > The ioctls introduced by this patch are for legacy only: virtio 1.0 > devices are

Only cosmetic and documentation changes since v5. --- Greg Kurz (8): 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

Only cosmetic and documentation changes since v5. --- Greg Kurz (8): 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

Hi, This patchset allows vhost to be used with legacy virtio when guest and host have a different endianness. Patch 7 got rewritten according to Cornelia's and Michael's comments. I have also introduced patch 8 that brings BE vnet headers support to tun/macvtap. This series is enough to have vhost_net working flawlessly. I could succesfully reboot guests from ppc64 to ppc64le and

Hi, This patchset allows vhost to be used with legacy virtio when guest and host have a different endianness. Patch 7 got rewritten according to Cornelia's and Michael's comments. I have also introduced patch 8 that brings BE vnet headers support to tun/macvtap. This series is enough to have vhost_net working flawlessly. I could succesfully reboot guests from ppc64 to ppc64le and

On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 02:19:31PM +0200, Greg Kurz wrote: > This patch brings cross-endian support to vhost when used to implement > legacy virtio devices. Since it is a relatively rare situation, the > feature availability is controlled by a kernel config option (not set > by default). > > The ioctls introduced by this patch are for legacy only: virtio 1.0 > devices are

On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 02:19:31PM +0200, Greg Kurz wrote: > This patch brings cross-endian support to vhost when used to implement > legacy virtio devices. Since it is a relatively rare situation, the > feature availability is controlled by a kernel config option (not set > by default). > > The ioctls introduced by this patch are for legacy only: virtio 1.0 > devices are