Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.11] hw/misc/ivshmem: Fix ivshmem_recv_msg() to also work on big endian systems

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 30.08.2017 16:53, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> On 08/30/2017 10:39 AM, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> The "slow" ivshmem-tests currently fail when they are running on a
>> big endian host:
>>
>> $ 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
>>
>> The problem is that the server side code in ivshmem_server_send_one_msg()
>> correctly translates all messages IDs into little endian 64-bit values,
>> but the client side code in the ivshmem_recv_msg() function does not swap
>> the byte order back. Fix it by passing the value through le64_to_cpu().
> 
> Yes, we lack BE testing :(

As far as I know, some people are already running the tests on s390x and
ppc64 ... the problem is that apparently nobody is running with
SPEED=slow there - that's why this problem slipped through so far.
Maybe we should switch to the SPEED=slow by default in the Makefile?

 Thomas