Re: [Qemu-devel] make check speed

[Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>]

Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> writes:

> On 30.08.2017 13:52, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> writes:
> [...]
>>> This also fails on a big endian ppc64 host machine:
>>>
>>> $ uname -m
>>> ppc64
>>> $ V=1 QTEST_QEMU_BINARY=x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 tests/ivshmem-test -m slow
>>> /x86_64/ivshmem/single: OK
>>> /x86_64/ivshmem/hotplug: OK
>>> /x86_64/ivshmem/memdev: OK
>>> /x86_64/ivshmem/pair: OK
>>> /x86_64/ivshmem/server-msi: qemu-system-x86_64: -device ivshmem-doorbell,chardev=chr0,vectors=2: server sent invalid ID message
>>> Broken pipe
>> 
>> Botched endian conversion?
>
> Yes, it's an endianess problem. I just sent a patch, title
> "hw/misc/ivshmem: Fix ivshmem_recv_msg() to also work on big endian
> systems" (forgot to put you on CC:, sorry!).

No need to be sorry!  Because I always feel sorry when I have to review
another ivshmem patch ;-}