Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/7] virtio: allow byte swapping for vring and config access

[Rusty Russell]

Peter Maydell <address@hidden> writes:
> On 9 August 2013 08:35, Rusty Russell <address@hidden> wrote:
>> That's a lot of replumbing and indirect function calls for a fairly
>> obscure case.  We certainly don't have a nice CPUState lying around in
>> virtio at the moment, for example.
>
> Actually if you're in an IO routine you do: it will be in the
> global variable 'current_cpu'. Most IO functions don't need this,
> but it's what we use for things like "this device behaviour varies
> depending on which CPU accesses it".

Hmm, that was NULL for me when called from virtio.  I have stuck with
first_cpu in the ppc64 case.

Patches coming,
Rusty.