From: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Greg Kurz <gkurz@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "Kevin Wolf" <kwolf@redhat.com>, "Fam Zheng" <famz@redhat.com>,
"Anthony Liguori" <aliguori@amazon.com>,
"Juan Quintela" <quintela@redhat.com>,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Stefan Hajnoczi" <stefanha@redhat.com>,
"Amit Shah" <amit.shah@redhat.com>,
"Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 8/8] virtio: add endian-ambivalent support to VirtIODevice
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 10:57:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53996B7C.2000707@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53996B0E.4040808@redhat.com>
On 12.06.14 10:55, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 12/06/2014 09:43, Greg Kurz ha scritto:
>> Since we know that 0 < max_nr_ports < 32, is it acceptable to guess
>> the correct endianness with a heuristic ?
>>
>> if (max_nr_ports > tswap32(s->config.max_nr_ports)) {
>> max_nr_ports = bswap32(max_nr_ports);
>> }
>>
>> if (max_nr_ports > tswap32(s->config.max_nr_ports)) {
>> return -EINVAL;
>> }
>
> Yes, I guess it is acceptable. So first you should fix the code to
> always serialize fields as big-endian, and then apply this little hack
> and virtio_tswap on top of the previous change.
Why don't we just ignore those config fields? They won't change during
the lifetime of the guest anyway - and configuration needs to be the
same on source and dest to work.
Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-12 8:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-14 15:41 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/8] virtio: migrate new properties Greg Kurz
2014-05-14 15:41 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 1/8] virtio: add subsections to the migration stream Greg Kurz
2014-05-15 6:04 ` Amit Shah
2014-05-15 6:23 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-05-15 6:46 ` Amit Shah
2014-05-15 7:04 ` Greg Kurz
2014-05-15 9:20 ` Andreas Färber
2014-05-15 9:52 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-05-15 9:58 ` Andreas Färber
2014-05-15 10:03 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-05-15 10:11 ` Andreas Färber
2014-05-15 10:16 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-05-15 12:00 ` Andreas Färber
2014-05-15 12:20 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-05-15 13:47 ` Markus Armbruster
2014-05-15 13:49 ` Greg Kurz
2014-05-15 12:33 ` Markus Armbruster
2014-05-15 12:58 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-05-15 13:35 ` Greg Kurz
2014-05-15 10:08 ` Greg Kurz
2014-05-15 10:12 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-05-15 10:21 ` Greg Kurz
2014-05-15 10:16 ` Greg Kurz
2014-05-16 9:14 ` Fam Zheng
2014-05-16 9:22 ` Andreas Färber
2014-05-16 9:40 ` Fam Zheng
2014-05-16 9:48 ` Greg Kurz
2014-05-17 18:29 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-05-15 7:14 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-05-15 6:49 ` Greg Kurz
2014-05-15 6:55 ` Amit Shah
2014-05-15 7:12 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-05-14 15:41 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 2/8] virtio-net: migrate subsections Greg Kurz
2014-05-14 15:41 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 3/8] virtio-blk: " Greg Kurz
2014-05-14 15:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 4/8] virtio-scsi: " Greg Kurz
2014-05-14 15:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 5/8] virtio-serial: " Greg Kurz
2014-05-14 15:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 6/8] virtio-balloon: " Greg Kurz
2014-05-14 15:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 7/8] virtio-rng: " Greg Kurz
2014-05-14 15:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 8/8] virtio: add endian-ambivalent support to VirtIODevice Greg Kurz
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[not found] ` <538708FA.4070309@redhat.com>
2014-06-12 7:43 ` Greg Kurz
2014-06-12 7:54 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-06-12 8:47 ` Greg Kurz
2014-06-12 9:05 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-06-12 9:06 ` Alexander Graf
2014-06-12 8:55 ` Alexander Graf
2014-06-12 9:07 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-06-12 9:08 ` Alexander Graf
2014-06-12 8:55 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-12 8:57 ` Alexander Graf [this message]
2014-06-12 9:06 ` Greg Kurz
2014-06-12 9:19 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-12 9:37 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-06-12 9:39 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-12 9:43 ` Alexander Graf
2014-06-12 10:14 ` Greg Kurz
2014-06-12 10:39 ` Alexander Graf
2014-06-12 10:50 ` Greg Kurz
2014-06-12 10:58 ` Alexander Graf
2014-06-12 10:59 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-06-12 11:10 ` Greg Kurz
2014-06-12 10:57 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-06-12 10:56 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-06-12 10:55 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-05-19 8:38 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC V2 0/8] virtio: migrate new properties Greg Kurz
2014-05-19 8:39 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 8/8] virtio: add endian-ambivalent support to VirtIODevice Greg Kurz
2014-05-19 13:06 ` Greg Kurz
2014-05-19 17:06 ` Andreas Färber
2014-05-19 17:32 ` Greg Kurz
2014-05-19 18:07 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
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