[PATCH] KVM: Add Kconfig option to signal cross-endian guests

From: Thomas Huth
Date: Thu Jul 09 2015 - 03:49:25 EST


The option for supporting cross-endianness legacy guests in
the vhost and tun code should only be available on systems
that support cross-endian guests.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm/kvm/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/arm64/kvm/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/powerpc/kvm/Kconfig | 1 +
drivers/net/Kconfig | 1 +
drivers/vhost/Kconfig | 1 +
virt/kvm/Kconfig | 3 +++
6 files changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/kvm/Kconfig
index bfb915d..9d8f363 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kvm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/kvm/Kconfig
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ config KVM
select KVM_VFIO
select HAVE_KVM_EVENTFD
select HAVE_KVM_IRQFD
+ select KVM_CROSS_ENDIAN_GUESTS
depends on ARM_VIRT_EXT && ARM_LPAE && ARM_ARCH_TIMER
---help---
Support hosting virtualized guest machines.
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/kvm/Kconfig
index bfffe8f..9af39fe 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/Kconfig
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ config KVM
select KVM_VFIO
select HAVE_KVM_EVENTFD
select HAVE_KVM_IRQFD
+ select KVM_CROSS_ENDIAN_GUESTS
---help---
Support hosting virtualized guest machines.

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/kvm/Kconfig
index 3caec2c..e028710 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/Kconfig
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ config KVM_BOOK3S_64_HV
select KVM_BOOK3S_HV_POSSIBLE
select MMU_NOTIFIER
select CMA
+ select KVM_CROSS_ENDIAN_GUESTS
---help---
Support running unmodified book3s_64 guest kernels in
virtual machines on POWER7 and PPC970 processors that have
diff --git a/drivers/net/Kconfig b/drivers/net/Kconfig
index c18f9e6..0c4ce47 100644
--- a/drivers/net/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/net/Kconfig
@@ -261,6 +261,7 @@ config TUN
config TUN_VNET_CROSS_LE
bool "Support for cross-endian vnet headers on little-endian kernels"
default n
+ depends on KVM_CROSS_ENDIAN_GUESTS
---help---
This option allows TUN/TAP and MACVTAP device drivers in a
little-endian kernel to parse vnet headers that come from a
diff --git a/drivers/vhost/Kconfig b/drivers/vhost/Kconfig
index 533eaf0..4d8ae6b 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/vhost/Kconfig
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ config VHOST

config VHOST_CROSS_ENDIAN_LEGACY
bool "Cross-endian support for vhost"
+ depends on KVM_CROSS_ENDIAN_GUESTS
default n
---help---
This option allows vhost to support guests with a different byte
diff --git a/virt/kvm/Kconfig b/virt/kvm/Kconfig
index e2c876d..cc7b28a 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/Kconfig
+++ b/virt/kvm/Kconfig
@@ -47,3 +47,6 @@ config KVM_GENERIC_DIRTYLOG_READ_PROTECT
config KVM_COMPAT
def_bool y
depends on COMPAT && !S390
+
+config KVM_CROSS_ENDIAN_GUESTS
+ bool
--
1.8.3.1

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