From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
To: Greg Kurz <gkurz@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "Kevin Wolf" <kwolf@redhat.com>,
"Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
"Rusty Russell" <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Alexander Graf" <agraf@suse.de>,
"Juan Quintela" <quintela@redhat.com>,
aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
"Anthony Liguori" <aliguori@amazon.com>,
"Amit Shah" <amit.shah@redhat.com>,
"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
"Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 00/20] virtio endian-ambivalent target
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 15:36:31 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140617073631.GL16768@stefanha-thinkpad.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140613111703.22108.14322.stgit@bahia.local>
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On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 01:18:00PM +0200, Greg Kurz wrote:
> This version merges the changes requested during the v7 review, remarks from
> ppc64 dump support review (yes, we talked about virtio there) and the work on
> virtio subsections migration. Also two new patches have been added:
> - patch #1 is a preliminary fix for virtio-serial posted by Alexander Graf
> - patch #9 prepares the work on the virtio_is_big_endian() helper
>
> The most significant changes are:
> - introduction of a new CPU method for virtio
> - endianness is taken from CPU that resets the device
> - fastpath virtio memory accessors for fixed endian targets
> - VMState based virtio subsections (compatibility friendly)
I'm surprised it's not enough for the virtio device to have an
endianness field (big/little). It seems these patches make endianness
depend on the CPUState through which the device is being accessed.
Can you explain why it's necessary to check the CPUState?
Stefan
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Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-13 11:18 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 00/20] virtio endian-ambivalent target Greg Kurz
2014-06-13 11:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 01/20] virtio-serial: don't migrate the config space Greg Kurz
2014-06-13 11:33 ` Alexander Graf
2014-06-19 10:40 ` Amit Shah
2014-06-19 11:17 ` Greg Kurz
2014-06-19 11:32 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-06-13 11:19 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 02/20] virtio: introduce device specific migration calls Greg Kurz
2014-06-13 11:19 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 03/20] virtio-net: implement per-device " Greg Kurz
2014-06-13 11:19 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 04/20] virtio-blk: " Greg Kurz
2014-06-13 11:20 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 05/20] virtio-serial: " Greg Kurz
2014-06-13 11:20 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 06/20] virtio-balloon: " Greg Kurz
2014-06-13 11:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 07/20] virtio-rng: " Greg Kurz
2014-06-13 11:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 08/20] virtio: add subsections to the migration stream Greg Kurz
2014-06-13 11:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 09/20] exec: introduce target_words_bigendian() helper Greg Kurz
2014-06-13 11:41 ` Alexander Graf
2014-06-13 12:05 ` Greg Kurz
2014-06-13 11:22 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 10/20] cpu: introduce CPUClass::virtio_is_big_endian() Greg Kurz
2014-06-13 11:42 ` Alexander Graf
2014-06-13 12:08 ` Greg Kurz
2014-06-13 11:23 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 11/20] virtio: add endian-ambivalent support to VirtIODevice Greg Kurz
2014-06-13 11:46 ` Alexander Graf
2014-06-13 12:14 ` Greg Kurz
2014-06-13 12:41 ` Alexander Graf
2014-06-13 12:52 ` Greg Kurz
2014-06-13 11:23 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 12/20] virtio: memory accessors for endian-ambivalent targets Greg Kurz
2014-06-13 11:24 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 13/20] virtio: allow byte swapping for vring Greg Kurz
2014-06-13 11:24 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 14/20] virtio-net: use virtio wrappers to access headers Greg Kurz
2014-06-13 11:52 ` Alexander Graf
2014-06-13 12:24 ` Cedric Le Goater
2014-06-13 12:40 ` Greg Kurz
2014-06-13 11:24 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 15/20] virtio-balloon: use virtio wrappers to access page frame numbers Greg Kurz
2014-06-13 11:24 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 16/20] virtio-blk: use virtio wrappers to access headers Greg Kurz
2014-06-13 11:24 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 17/20] virtio-scsi: " Greg Kurz
2014-06-19 15:05 ` Greg Kurz
2014-06-20 8:24 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-20 8:33 ` Greg Kurz
2014-06-13 11:25 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 18/20] virtio-serial-bus: " Greg Kurz
2014-06-13 11:25 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 19/20] virtio-9p: " Greg Kurz
2014-06-13 11:26 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 20/20] target-ppc: enable virtio endian ambivalent support Greg Kurz
2014-06-13 11:56 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 00/20] virtio endian-ambivalent target Alexander Graf
2014-06-16 15:07 ` Greg Kurz
2014-06-16 16:53 ` Amit Shah
2014-06-17 7:36 ` Stefan Hajnoczi [this message]
2014-06-17 7:40 ` Alexander Graf
2014-06-18 10:38 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-06-18 12:35 ` Greg Kurz
2014-06-18 15:12 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-06-18 15:14 ` Alexander Graf
2014-06-18 15:26 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-06-19 9:51 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-06-18 12:53 ` Peter Maydell
2014-06-18 13:42 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-06-18 14:28 ` Greg Kurz
2014-06-18 15:05 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-06-18 15:35 ` Peter Maydell
2014-06-18 15:37 ` Alexander Graf
2014-06-18 15:40 ` Peter Maydell
2014-06-18 15:41 ` Alexander Graf
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