similar to: [PATCH v4 0/8] vhost: 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 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

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. 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 Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 12:16:20PM +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

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 12:16:20PM +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

On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 02:15:52PM +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

On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 02:15:52PM +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

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

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 12:20:21PM +0200, Greg Kurz wrote: > The VNET_LE flag was introduced to fix accesses to virtio 1.0 headers > that are always little-endian. It can also be used to handle the special > case of a legacy little-endian device implemented by a big-endian host. > > Let's add a flag and ioctls for big-endian devices as well. If both flags > are set,

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 12:20:21PM +0200, Greg Kurz wrote: > The VNET_LE flag was introduced to fix accesses to virtio 1.0 headers > that are always little-endian. It can also be used to handle the special > case of a legacy little-endian device implemented by a big-endian host. > > Let's add a flag and ioctls for big-endian devices as well. If both flags > are set,

On Thu, 23 Apr 2015 17:29:06 +0200 Greg Kurz <gkurz at linux.vnet.ibm.com> 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

On Thu, 23 Apr 2015 17:29:06 +0200 Greg Kurz <gkurz at linux.vnet.ibm.com> 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

Commit 501db511397f ("virtio: don't set VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_DATA_VALID on xmit") in fact disables VIRTIO_HDR_F_DATA_VALID on receiving path too, fixing this by adding a hint (has_data_valid) and set it only on the receiving path. Cc: Rolf Neugebauer <rolf.neugebauer at docker.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang at redhat.com> --- drivers/net/macvtap.c | 2 +-

Commit 501db511397f ("virtio: don't set VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_DATA_VALID on xmit") in fact disables VIRTIO_HDR_F_DATA_VALID on receiving path too, fixing this by adding a hint (has_data_valid) and set it only on the receiving path. Cc: Rolf Neugebauer <rolf.neugebauer at docker.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang at redhat.com> --- drivers/net/macvtap.c | 2 +-

This fixes remaining sparse warnings in vringh and mic by using virtio 1.0 compliant wrappers. This also needs by get_user patches to avoid getting warnings from these calls. Tested by running vringh_test. Rusty, I prefer fixing all these warnings for 3.19, any objections? Michael S. Tsirkin (3): vringh: 64 bit features vringh: initial virtio 1.0 support mic/host: initial virtio 1.0

This fixes remaining sparse warnings in vringh and mic by using virtio 1.0 compliant wrappers. This also needs by get_user patches to avoid getting warnings from these calls. Tested by running vringh_test. Rusty, I prefer fixing all these warnings for 3.19, any objections? Michael S. Tsirkin (3): vringh: 64 bit features vringh: initial virtio 1.0 support mic/host: initial virtio 1.0