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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 05/11] virtio: introduce legacy virtio devic


From: Greg Kurz
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 05/11] virtio: introduce legacy virtio devices
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 23:29:50 +0100

On Thu, 30 Oct 2014 19:02:01 +0100
Cornelia Huck <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Oct 2014 16:40:18 +0100
> Greg Kurz <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue,  7 Oct 2014 16:40:01 +0200
> > Cornelia Huck <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> > > Introduce a helper function to indicate  whether a virtio device is
> > > operating in legacy or virtio standard mode.
> > > 
> > > It may be used to make decisions about the endianess of virtio accesses
> > > and other virtio-1 specific changes, enabling us to support transitional
> > > devices.
> > > 
> > > Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <address@hidden>
> > > Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <address@hidden>
> > > ---
> > >  hw/virtio/virtio.c                |    6 +++++-
> > >  include/hw/virtio/virtio-access.h |    4 ++++
> > >  include/hw/virtio/virtio.h        |   13 +++++++++++--
> > >  3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/hw/virtio/virtio.c b/hw/virtio/virtio.c
> > > index 7aaa953..e6ae3a0 100644
> > > --- a/hw/virtio/virtio.c
> > > +++ b/hw/virtio/virtio.c
> > > @@ -883,7 +883,11 @@ static bool virtio_device_endian_needed(void *opaque)
> > >      VirtIODevice *vdev = opaque;
> > > 
> > >      assert(vdev->device_endian != VIRTIO_DEVICE_ENDIAN_UNKNOWN);
> > > -    return vdev->device_endian != virtio_default_endian();
> > > +    if (virtio_device_is_legacy(vdev)) {
> > > +        return vdev->device_endian != virtio_default_endian();
> > > +    }
> > > +    /* Devices conforming to VIRTIO 1.0 or later are always LE. */
> > > +    return vdev->device_endian != VIRTIO_DEVICE_ENDIAN_LITTLE;
> > >  }
> > > 
> > 
> > Shouldn't we have some code doing the following somewhere ?
> > 
> > if (!virtio_device_is_legacy(vdev)) {
> >     vdev->device_endian = VIRTIO_DEVICE_ENDIAN_LITTLE;
> > }
> > 
> > also, since virtio-1 is LE only, do we expect device_endian to
> > be different from VIRTIO_DEVICE_ENDIAN_LITTLE ?
> 
> device_endian should not depend on whether the device is legacy or not.
> virtio_is_big_endian always returns false for virtio-1 devices, though.

Sorry, I had missed the virtio_is_big_endian() change: it that makes
device_endian a legacy virtio only matter. 
So why would we care to migrate the endian subsection when we have a
virtio-1 device ?  Shouldn't virtio_device_endian_needed() return false
for virtio-1 ?

--
Greg




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