[Qemu-devel] Re: virtio: Add memory statistics reporting to the balloon driver (V3)

[Adam Litke]

On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 18:13 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 11/19/2009 05:58 PM, Adam Litke wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 17:22 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> >    
> >> On 11/19/2009 05:19 PM, Adam Litke wrote:
> >>      
> >>> Rusty and Anthony,
> >>> If I've addressed all outstanding issues, please consider this patch for
> >>> inclusion.  Thanks.
> >>>
> >>> +struct virtio_balloon_stat
> >>> +{
> >>> + __le16 tag;
> >>> + __le64 val;
> >>> +};
> >>> +
> >>>
> >>>        
> >> You're not doing endian conversion in the host?
> >>      
> > No.  I was following by example.  For the virtio_balloon, the existing
> > code is careful so that the guest always writes data in little endian.
> >    
> 
> I don't follow.  If the guest is careful to write little-endian, surely 
> the host must be equally careful to read little-endian?

That is true and, by my reading of the existing qemu virtio-balloon
device code, isn't virtio_balloon_set_config() on a big endian host
already broken?


-- 
Thanks,
Adam