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Date:   Tue, 25 Aug 2020 09:47:00 +0100
From:   Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@...ethink.co.uk>
To:     Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>,
        Michael Kelley <mikelley@...rosoft.com>
Cc:     Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-efi <linux-efi@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>, wei.liu@...nel.org,
        vkuznets <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        KY Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>,
        Sunil Muthuswamy <sunilmut@...rosoft.com>,
        Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 10/10] Drivers: hv: Enable Hyper-V code to be built on
 ARM64

On 24/08/2020 18:24, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Aug 2020 at 18:48, Michael Kelley <mikelley@...rosoft.com> wrote:
>>
>> Update drivers/hv/Kconfig so CONFIG_HYPERV can be selected on
>> ARM64, causing the Hyper-V specific code to be built.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@...rosoft.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/hv/Kconfig | 3 ++-
>>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/hv/Kconfig b/drivers/hv/Kconfig
>> index 79e5356..1113e49 100644
>> --- a/drivers/hv/Kconfig
>> +++ b/drivers/hv/Kconfig
>> @@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ menu "Microsoft Hyper-V guest support"
>>
>>   config HYPERV
>>          tristate "Microsoft Hyper-V client drivers"
>> -       depends on X86 && ACPI && X86_LOCAL_APIC && HYPERVISOR_GUEST
>> +       depends on ACPI && \
>> +                       ((X86 && X86_LOCAL_APIC && HYPERVISOR_GUEST) || ARM64)
>>          select PARAVIRT
>>          select X86_HV_CALLBACK_VECTOR
>>          help
> 
> Given the comment in a previous patch
> 
> +/*
> + * All data structures defined in the TLFS that are shared between Hyper-V
> + * and a guest VM use Little Endian byte ordering.  This matches the default
> + * byte ordering of Linux running on ARM64, so no special handling is required.
> + */
> 
> shouldn't this depend on !CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN ?

or mark the data __le and have the appropriate accessor functions do
the swapping.


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