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From: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>,
	"kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org" <kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org>,
	"kvm@vger.kernel.org mailing list" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] KVM: PPC: Book3S: MMIO emulation support for little endian guests
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 14:29:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <527CF541.4080508@fr.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131106055537.GH14842@drongo>

On 11/06/2013 06:55 AM, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 02:01:14PM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>
>> On 05.11.2013, at 13:28, Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> wrote:
>>
>>> +/*
>>> + * Compare endian order of host and guest to determine whether we need
>>> + * to byteswap or not
>>> + */
>>> static inline bool kvmppc_need_byteswap(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>>> {
>>> -       return vcpu->arch.shared->msr & MSR_LE;
>>> +       return ((mfmsr() & (MSR_LE)) >> MSR_LE_LG) ^
>>
>> mfmsr() is slow. Just use #ifdef __LITTLE_ENDIAN__.
> 
> Or (MSR_KERNEL & MSR_LE).

yes. That is better. I will resend the patch with an update. That was 
quite laborious for a single line patch ... 

Thanks,

C.


      reply	other threads:[~2013-11-08 14:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-08 14:12 [PATCH v2 0/3] KVM: PPC: Book3S: MMIO support for Little Endian guests Cédric Le Goater
2013-10-08 14:12 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] KVM: PPC: Book3S: add helper routine to load guest instructions Cédric Le Goater
2013-10-08 14:12 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] KVM: PPC: Book3S: add helper routines to detect endian Cédric Le Goater
2013-10-08 14:12 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] KVM: PPC: Book3S: MMIO emulation support for little endian guests Cédric Le Goater
2013-10-08 14:25   ` Alexander Graf
2013-10-08 15:07     ` Cedric Le Goater
2013-10-08 15:31       ` [PATCH v3 " Cédric Le Goater
2013-10-08 15:36         ` Alexander Graf
2013-10-08 16:10           ` Cedric Le Goater
2013-10-08 16:43             ` [PATCH v4 0/3] KVM: PPC: Book3S: MMIO support for Little Endian guests Cédric Le Goater
2013-10-08 16:43               ` [PATCH v4 1/3] KVM: PPC: Book3S: add helper routine to load guest instructions Cédric Le Goater
2013-10-08 16:43               ` [PATCH v4 2/3] KVM: PPC: Book3S: add helper routines to detect endian order Cédric Le Goater
2013-10-08 16:43               ` [PATCH v4 3/3] KVM: PPC: Book3S: MMIO emulation support for little endian guests Cédric Le Goater
2013-10-08 23:31     ` [PATCH v2 " Paul Mackerras
2013-10-08 23:46       ` Alexander Graf
2013-10-09  5:59         ` Paul Mackerras
2013-10-09  8:29           ` Alexander Graf
2013-10-09  8:42             ` Cedric Le Goater
2013-10-10 10:16             ` Paul Mackerras
2013-11-04 11:44               ` Alexander Graf
2013-11-05 12:28                 ` Cedric Le Goater
2013-11-05 13:01                   ` Alexander Graf
2013-11-05 17:22                     ` [PATCH v5 0/6] KVM: PPC: Book3S: MMIO support for Little Endian guests Cédric Le Goater
2013-11-05 17:22                       ` [PATCH v5 1/6] KVM: PPC: Book3S: add helper routine to load guest instructions Cédric Le Goater
2013-11-05 17:22                       ` [PATCH v5 2/6] KVM: PPC: Book3S: add helper routines to detect endian Cédric Le Goater
2014-01-02 20:05                         ` Alexander Graf
2014-01-08 17:22                           ` Cedric Le Goater
2013-11-05 17:22                       ` [PATCH v5 3/6] KVM: PPC: Book3S: MMIO emulation support for little endian guests Cédric Le Goater
2014-01-02 20:22                         ` Alexander Graf
2014-01-08 17:23                           ` Cedric Le Goater
2014-01-08 17:34                             ` Alexander Graf
2014-01-08 17:40                               ` Cedric Le Goater
2014-01-08 17:35                             ` [PATCH v6] " Cédric Le Goater
2014-01-09 10:02                             ` [PATCH v7] " Cédric Le Goater
2014-01-09 10:17                               ` Alexander Graf
2014-01-09 10:33                                 ` Cedric Le Goater
2014-01-09 10:51                                   ` [PATCH v8] " Cédric Le Goater
2014-01-09 10:55                                     ` Alexander Graf
2013-11-05 17:22                       ` [PATCH v5 4/6] KVM: PPC: Book3S: modify kvmppc_need_byteswap() for little endian host Cédric Le Goater
2013-11-08 14:36                         ` [PATCH v5.1 " Cedric Le Goater
2014-01-02 20:28                           ` Alexander Graf
2014-01-02 20:25                         ` [PATCH v5 " Alexander Graf
2013-11-05 17:22                       ` [PATCH v5 5/6] powerpc: add Split Little Endian bit to MSR Cédric Le Goater
2013-11-05 17:22                       ` [PATCH v5 6/6] KVM: PPC: Book3S: modify byte loading when guest uses Split Little Endian Cédric Le Goater
2014-01-02 20:26                         ` Alexander Graf
2013-11-06  5:55                     ` [PATCH v2 3/3] KVM: PPC: Book3S: MMIO emulation support for little endian guests Paul Mackerras
2013-11-08 14:29                       ` Cedric Le Goater [this message]

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