Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] dataplane: drop copy_in_vring_desc()

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 02:18:38PM +0200, Greg Kurz wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 12:28:45 +0200
> Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 09:32:21 +0200
> > Greg Kurz <gkurz@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > During early virtio 1.0 devel, there were several proposals about how to
> > > deal with the endianness of the vring descriptor fields:
> > > - convert the decriptor to host endianness in a single place, and use its
> > >   fields directly in the code
> > > - keep the descriptor untouched and use virtio memory helpers to access its
> > >   fields with the appropriate endianness
> > > 
> > > It seems like both approaches got merged: commit f5a5628cf0b6 introduces
> > > an extra swap that negates the one brought by commit b0e5d90ebc3e. This
> > > breaks boot in SLOF (BE client) when host is ppc64le with the following
> > > QEMU error:
> > > 
> > > Failed to map descriptor addr 0x18e2517e00000000 len 268435456
> > > 
> > > A solution could be to revert f5a5628cf0b6, but dropping copy_in_vring_desc()
> > > is equivalent and result in a smaller patch.
> > 
> > I'd prefer the revert, as the resulting code is nicer IMHO.
> > 
> 
> Agreed. It is good to clear the endianness noise out of the real code. :)

Can you please send v2 that works the way you want it?

> > But your second patch should apply regardless.
> > 
> 
> Thanks for your feedback.
> 
> > > 
> > > This patch allows SLOF to boot the OS.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <gkurz@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > > ---
> > >  hw/virtio/dataplane/vring.c |   14 ++------------
> > >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)