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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: mtosatti@redhat.com, agraf@suse.de, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC please check] KVM: question about the commit "Use Little Endian for Dirty Bitmap"
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:26:05 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BCEC4AD.6060305@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100421150720.16516cb7.yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>

On 04/21/2010 09:07 AM, Takuya Yoshikawa wrote:
> Hi, Alex, Avi, Marcelo
>
> I would like to ask you about the commit:
>    c8240bd6f0b4b1b21ffd36dd44114d05c7afe0c0 "Use Little Endian for Dirty Bitmap"
> I pasted a snipet below!
>
> I am now confused by the Alex's comment to my recent patch:
>    "change mark_page_dirty() to handle endian issues explicitly"
> in which I open-coded the generic___set_le_bit().
>
> So please explain me about the commit:
>    1. is this really the thing you intended to do?
>    

I think so.

>    2. including<asm-generic/bitops/le.h>  directly is OK?
>       -- I made a sample patch to avoid this, see below.
>    

I don't see a problem with it, it is also included from other places.

It might be possible to change it to <asm/bitops/le.h>, not sure how the 
include paths are set out.

>    3. or, I misunderstand something about Alex's comment?
>    

I missed the comment.  What was it?

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-04-21  9:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-21  6:07 [RFC please check] KVM: question about the commit "Use Little Endian for Dirty Bitmap" Takuya Yoshikawa
     [not found] ` <20100421150720.16516cb7.yoshikawa.takuya-gVGce1chcLdL9jVzuh4AOg@public.gmane.org>
2010-04-21  8:45   ` Takuya Yoshikawa
2010-04-21  9:26 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
     [not found]   ` <4BCEC4AD.6060305-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2010-04-21  9:32     ` Alexander Graf
     [not found]       ` <F5C06DB2-AECA-4E05-8B58-74576B65D800-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>
2010-04-22  4:12         ` Takuya Yoshikawa

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