[PATCH 0/3] virtio-mmio: handle BE guests on LE hosts

[mst@redhat.com (Michael S. Tsirkin)]

On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 03:36:08PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> This small patch series adds just enough kernel infrastructure and
> fixes to allow a BE guest to use virtio-mmio on a LE host, provided
> that the host actually supports such madness.
> 
> This has been tested on arm64, with some fixes to KVM and a set of
> changes to kvmtool, both which I am posting separately.
> 
> A branch containing all the relevant changes is at:
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/maz/arm-platforms.git kvm-arm64/be-on-le-3.12-rc4
> 
> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> Cc: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>

We are changing the spec to make everything LE instead of
the native endian.

I think that'll fix the issue in a cleaner way.

> Marc Zyngier (3):
>   virtio: let the guest report its endianess if advertized by the host
>   virtio: mmio: fix signature checking for BE guests
>   virtio: mmio: access configuration space as little-endian
> 
>  drivers/block/virtio_blk.c             |  6 +--
>  drivers/char/virtio_console.c          |  4 +-
>  drivers/lguest/lguest_device.c         |  8 +++-
>  drivers/net/caif/caif_virtio.c         |  2 +-
>  drivers/net/virtio_net.c               |  2 +-
>  drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_virtio.c |  8 +++-
>  drivers/s390/kvm/kvm_virtio.c          |  8 +++-
>  drivers/s390/kvm/virtio_ccw.c          |  9 +++-
>  drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c             |  4 +-
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c        |  8 ++--
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_mmio.c           | 88 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_pci.c            |  8 +++-
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c           |  8 ++++
>  include/linux/virtio_config.h          | 19 ++++----
>  include/uapi/linux/virtio_ring.h       |  8 ++++
>  net/9p/trans_virtio.c                  |  4 +-
>  16 files changed, 150 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)
> 
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