Re: [PATCH] vfio: Fix endianness handling for emulated BARs

[Alexey Kardashevskiy]

On 06/25/2014 07:54 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-06-25 at 00:33 +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>>
>> I do not understand why @val is considered LE here and need to be
>> converted
>> to CPU. Really. I truly believe it should be cpu_to_le32().
> 
> No. Both are slightly wrong semantically but le32_to_cpu() is less
> wrong :-)
>
> iowrite32 supposedly takes a "cpu" value as argument and writes an "le"
> value. So if anything, you need something that converts to a "cpu" value
> before you call iowrite32.
> 
> Now it's still slightly wrong because the "input" to le32_to_cpu() is
> supposed to be an "LE" value but of course here it's not, it's a "cpu"
> value too :-)
> 
> But yes, I agree with aw here, either do nothing or stick a set of
> iowriteXX_native or something equivalent in the generic iomap header,
> define them in term of iowrite32be/iowrite32 based on the compile time
> endian of the arch.


Ok. I'll do nothing.


> Hitting asm-generic/iomap.h I think will cover all archs except ARM.
> For ARM, just hack arch/arm/asm/io.h


-- 
Alexey
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