linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 08/50] virtio: memory access APIs

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Message-ID: <CA+V-a8tiJ8+2W4gc06_iBkhhk75n+3ZVXcjJbxDYQ2Eqc3G+nQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 3 Dec 2014 00:48:06 +0000
From:	Prabhakar Lad <prabhakar.csengg@...il.com>
To:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, cornelia.huck@...ibm.com,
	rusty@....ibm.com, nab@...ux-iscsi.org, pbonzini@...hat.com,
	thuth@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, dahi@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...mgrid.com>,
	Bjarke Istrup Pedersen <gurligebis@...too.org>,
	stephen hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
	Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com>,
	David Drysdale <drysdale@...gle.com>,
	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-api <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 08/50] virtio: memory access APIs

Hi Michael,

Thanks for the patch.

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 4:03 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com> wrote:
> virtio 1.0 makes all memory structures LE, so
[Snip]
> +/*
> + * Low-level memory accessors for handling virtio in modern little endian and in
> + * compatibility native endian format.
> + */
> +
> +static inline u16 __virtio16_to_cpu(bool little_endian, __virtio16 val)
> +{
> +       if (little_endian)
> +               return le16_to_cpu((__force __le16)val);
> +       else
> +               return (__force u16)val;
> +}
> +
> +static inline __virtio16 __cpu_to_virtio16(bool little_endian, u16 val)
> +{
> +       if (little_endian)
> +               return (__force __virtio16)cpu_to_le16(val);
> +       else
> +               return (__force __virtio16)val;
> +}
> +
> +static inline u32 __virtio32_to_cpu(bool little_endian, __virtio32 val)
> +{
> +       if (little_endian)
> +               return le32_to_cpu((__force __le32)val);
> +       else
> +               return (__force u32)val;
> +}
> +
> +static inline __virtio32 __cpu_to_virtio32(bool little_endian, u32 val)
> +{
> +       if (little_endian)
> +               return (__force __virtio32)cpu_to_le32(val);
> +       else
> +               return (__force __virtio32)val;
> +}
> +
> +static inline u64 __virtio64_to_cpu(bool little_endian, __virtio64 val)
> +{
> +       if (little_endian)
> +               return le64_to_cpu((__force __le64)val);
> +       else
> +               return (__force u64)val;
> +}
> +
> +static inline __virtio64 __cpu_to_virtio64(bool little_endian, u64 val)
> +{
> +       if (little_endian)
> +               return (__force __virtio64)cpu_to_le64(val);
> +       else
> +               return (__force __virtio64)val;
> +}
> +

Nitpicking, could remove the else for the all above functions and
align the return appropriately ?

Apart from that patch looks good.

Acked-by: Lad, Prabhakar <prabhakar.csengg@...il.com>

Thanks,
--Prabhakar Lad
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