linux-kernel - [PATCH RFC 1/1] virtio-balloon: handle virtio-1 endianness

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Message-Id: <1463573563-34081-2-git-send-email-cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Date:	Wed, 18 May 2016 14:12:43 +0200
From:	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
To:	mst@...hat.com
Cc:	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, borntraeger@...ibm.com,
	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH RFC 1/1] virtio-balloon: handle virtio-1 endianness

As virtio-1 devices use little endian on their queues, we need
to make sure the pfns are in virtio32 format before we put
them on the queue.

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
---
 drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
index 7b6d74f..89da06c 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ struct virtio_balloon {
 	/* The array of pfns we tell the Host about. */
 	unsigned int num_pfns;
 	u32 pfns[VIRTIO_BALLOON_ARRAY_PFNS_MAX];
+	__virtio32 vpfns[VIRTIO_BALLOON_ARRAY_PFNS_MAX];
 
 	/* Memory statistics */
 	struct virtio_balloon_stat stats[VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_NR];
@@ -115,8 +116,11 @@ static void tell_host(struct virtio_balloon *vb, struct virtqueue *vq)
 {
 	struct scatterlist sg;
 	unsigned int len;
+	int i;
 
-	sg_init_one(&sg, vb->pfns, sizeof(vb->pfns[0]) * vb->num_pfns);
+	for (i = 0; i < vb->num_pfns; i++)
+		vb->vpfns[i] = cpu_to_virtio32(vb->vdev, vb->pfns[i]);
+	sg_init_one(&sg, vb->vpfns, sizeof(vb->vpfns[0]) * vb->num_pfns);
 
 	/* We should always be able to add one buffer to an empty queue. */
 	virtqueue_add_outbuf(vq, &sg, 1, vb, GFP_KERNEL);
-- 
2.6.6