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Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Memory-API: Make eventfd adhere to d
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Avi Kivity |
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Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Memory-API: Make eventfd adhere to device endianness |
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Wed, 17 Oct 2012 16:47:43 +0200 |
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On 10/15/2012 08:30 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> Our memory API MMIO regions know the concept of device endianness. This
> is used to automatically swap endianness between devices and host CPU,
> depending on whether buses in between would swizzle the bits.
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> The ioeventfd value comparison does not adhere to that semantic though.
> Probably because nobody has been running ioeventfd on a BE platform and
> the only device implementing ioeventfd right now is LE (PCI) based.
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> So add swizzling to ioeventfd registration / deletion to make the rest
> of the code as consistent as possible.
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> Thanks a lot to Michael Tsirkin to point me towards the right direction.
Thanks, applied.
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