linux-kernel - Re: virtio: Add memory statistics reporting to the balloon driver (V3)

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Message-ID: <1258648149.3464.23.camel@aglitke>
Date:	Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:29:09 -0600
From:	Adam Litke <agl@...ibm.com>
To:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
Cc:	Anthony Liguori <aliguori@...ibm.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>, qemu-devel@...gnu.org,
	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: virtio: Add memory statistics reporting to the balloon driver
 (V3)

On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 18:13 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 11/19/2009 05:58 PM, Adam Litke wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 17:22 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> >    
> >> On 11/19/2009 05:19 PM, Adam Litke wrote:
> >>      
> >>> Rusty and Anthony,
> >>> If I've addressed all outstanding issues, please consider this patch for
> >>> inclusion.  Thanks.
> >>>
> >>> +struct virtio_balloon_stat
> >>> +{
> >>> +	__le16 tag;
> >>> +	__le64 val;
> >>> +};
> >>> +
> >>>
> >>>        
> >> You're not doing endian conversion in the host?
> >>      
> > No.  I was following by example.  For the virtio_balloon, the existing
> > code is careful so that the guest always writes data in little endian.
> >    
> 
> I don't follow.  If the guest is careful to write little-endian, surely 
> the host must be equally careful to read little-endian?

That is true and, by my reading of the existing qemu virtio-balloon
device code, isn't virtio_balloon_set_config() on a big endian host
already broken?


-- 
Thanks,
Adam

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