Date:	Wed, 16 Dec 2015 14:52:48 +0100
From:	Greg Kurz <gkurz@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kvm@...r.kernel.org, virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vhost: move is_le setup to the backend

On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 15:28:19 +0100
Greg Kurz <gkurz@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 15:46:30 +0200
> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 12:42:35PM +0100, Greg Kurz wrote:
> > > 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@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > 
> > I plan to look at this next week, busy with QEMU 2.5 now.
> > 
> 
> I don't have any deadline for this since this is only a cleanup tentative.
> 
> Thanks.
> 

... but ping anyway since it was a month ago :)

Cheers.

--
Greg

> > > ---
> > >  drivers/vhost/net.c   |    6 ++++++
> > >  drivers/vhost/scsi.c  |    3 +++
> > >  drivers/vhost/test.c  |    2 ++
> > >  drivers/vhost/vhost.c |   12 +++++++-----
> > >  drivers/vhost/vhost.h |    1 +
> > >  5 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/vhost/net.c b/drivers/vhost/net.c
> > > index 9eda69e40678..d6319cb2664c 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/vhost/net.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/vhost/net.c
> > > @@ -917,6 +917,12 @@ static long vhost_net_set_backend(struct vhost_net *n, unsigned index, int fd)
> > >  
> > >  		vhost_net_disable_vq(n, vq);
> > >  		vq->private_data = sock;
> > > +
> > > +		if (sock)
> > > +			vhost_set_is_le(vq);
> > > +		else
> > > +			vq->is_le = virtio_legacy_is_little_endian();
> > > +
> > >  		r = vhost_init_used(vq);
> > >  		if (r)
> > >  			goto err_used;
> > > diff --git a/drivers/vhost/scsi.c b/drivers/vhost/scsi.c
> > > index e25a23692822..e2644a301fa5 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/vhost/scsi.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/vhost/scsi.c
> > > @@ -1276,6 +1276,9 @@ vhost_scsi_set_endpoint(struct vhost_scsi *vs,
> > >  			vq = &vs->vqs[i].vq;
> > >  			mutex_lock(&vq->mutex);
> > >  			vq->private_data = vs_tpg;
> > > +
> > > +			vhost_set_is_le(vq);
> > > +
> > >  			vhost_init_used(vq);
> > >  			mutex_unlock(&vq->mutex);
> > >  		}
> > > diff --git a/drivers/vhost/test.c b/drivers/vhost/test.c
> > > index f2882ac98726..b1c7df502211 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/vhost/test.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/vhost/test.c
> > > @@ -196,6 +196,8 @@ static long vhost_test_run(struct vhost_test *n, int test)
> > >  		oldpriv = vq->private_data;
> > >  		vq->private_data = priv;
> > >  
> > > +		vhost_set_is_le(vq);
> > > +
> > >  		r = vhost_init_used(&n->vqs[index]);
> > >  
> > >  		mutex_unlock(&vq->mutex);
> > > diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> > > index eec2f11809ff..6be863dcbd13 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> > > @@ -113,6 +113,12 @@ static void vhost_init_is_le(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq)
> > >  }
> > >  #endif /* CONFIG_VHOST_CROSS_ENDIAN_LEGACY */
> > >  
> > > +void vhost_set_is_le(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq)
> > > +{
> > > +	vhost_init_is_le(vq);
> > > +}
> > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vhost_set_is_le);
> > > +
> > >  static void vhost_poll_func(struct file *file, wait_queue_head_t *wqh,
> > >  			    poll_table *pt)
> > >  {
> > > @@ -1156,12 +1162,8 @@ int vhost_init_used(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq)
> > >  {
> > >  	__virtio16 last_used_idx;
> > >  	int r;
> > > -	if (!vq->private_data) {
> > > -		vq->is_le = virtio_legacy_is_little_endian();
> > > +	if (!vq->private_data)
> > >  		return 0;
> > > -	}
> > > -
> > > -	vhost_init_is_le(vq);
> > >  
> > >  	r = vhost_update_used_flags(vq);
> > >  	if (r)
> > > diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.h b/drivers/vhost/vhost.h
> > > index 4772862b71a7..8a62041959fe 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.h
> > > +++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.h
> > > @@ -162,6 +162,7 @@ bool vhost_enable_notify(struct vhost_dev *, struct vhost_virtqueue *);
> > >  
> > >  int vhost_log_write(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq, struct vhost_log *log,
> > >  		    unsigned int log_num, u64 len);
> > > +void vhost_set_is_le(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq);
> > >  
> > >  #define vq_err(vq, fmt, ...) do {                                  \
> > >  		pr_debug(pr_fmt(fmt), ##__VA_ARGS__);       \
> > 
> 
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