Re: [PATCH] vhost: move is_le setup to the backend

[David Miller]

From: Greg Kurz <gkurz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 12:42:35 +0100

> The vq->is_le field is used to fix endianness when accessing the vring via
> the cpu_to_vhost16() and vhost16_to_cpu() helpers in the following cases:
> 
> 1) host is big endian and device is modern virtio
> 
> 2) host has cross-endian support and device is legacy virtio with a different
>    endianness than the host
> 
> Both cases rely on the VHOST_SET_FEATURES ioctl, but 2) also needs the
> VHOST_SET_VRING_ENDIAN ioctl to be called by userspace. Since vq->is_le
> is only needed when the backend is active, it was decided to set it at
> backend start.
> 
> This is currently done in vhost_init_used()->vhost_init_is_le() but it
> obfuscates the core vhost code. This patch moves the is_le setup to a
> dedicated function that is called from the backend code.
> 
> Note vhost_net is the only backend that can pass vq->private_data == NULL to
> vhost_init_used(), hence the "if (sock)" branch.
> 
> No behaviour change.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <gkurz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Michael, I'm assuming that you will be the one taking this.
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