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Jan Kiszka
a426e12217 kvm: Fix coding style violations
No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2011-01-21 14:12:49 -02:00
Lai Jiangshan
14a095184c kvm: convert kvm_ioctl(KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION) to kvm_check_extension()
simple cleanup and use existing helper: kvm_check_extension().

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2011-01-21 14:05:21 -02:00
Stefan Hajnoczi
d2f2b8a740 kvm: test for ioeventfd support on old kernels
There used to be a limit of 6 KVM io bus devices in the kernel.
On such a kernel, we can't use many ioeventfds for host notification
since the limit is reached too easily.

Add an API to test for this condition.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2011-01-10 14:44:16 +02:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
b2e0a138e7 migration: stable ram block ordering
This makes ram block ordering under migration stable, ordered by offset.
This is especially useful for migration to exec, for debugging.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
2010-12-02 21:13:39 +02:00
Huang Ying
983dfc3b13 Add RAM -> physical addr mapping in MCE simulation
In QEMU-KVM, physical address != RAM address. While MCE simulation
needs physical address instead of RAM address. So
kvm_physical_memory_addr_from_ram() is implemented to do the
conversion, and it is invoked before being filled in the IA32_MCi_ADDR
MSR.

Reported-by: Dean Nelson <dnelson@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-10-20 16:15:04 -05:00
Andreas Färber
e78815a554 Introduce qemu_madvise()
vl.c has a Sun-specific hack to supply a prototype for madvise(),
but the call site has apparently moved to arch_init.c.

Haiku doesn't implement madvise() in favor of posix_madvise().
OpenBSD and Solaris 10 don't implement posix_madvise() but madvise().
MinGW implements neither.

Check for madvise() and posix_madvise() in configure and supply qemu_madvise()
as wrapper. Prefer madvise() over posix_madvise() due to flag availability.
Convert all callers to use qemu_madvise() and QEMU_MADV_*.

Note that on Solaris the warning is fixed by moving the madvise() prototype,
not by qemu_madvise() itself. It helps with porting though, and it simplifies
most call sites.

v7 -> v8:
* Some versions of MinGW have no sys/mman.h header. Reported by Blue Swirl.

v6 -> v7:
* Adopt madvise() rather than posix_madvise() semantics for returning errors.
* Use EINVAL in place of ENOTSUP.

v5 -> v6:
* Replace two leftover instances of POSIX_MADV_NORMAL with QEMU_MADV_INVALID.
  Spotted by Blue Swirl.

v4 -> v5:
* Introduce QEMU_MADV_INVALID, suggested by Alexander Graf.
  Note that this relies on -1 not being a valid advice value.

v3 -> v4:
* Eliminate #ifdefs at qemu_advise() call sites. Requested by Blue Swirl.
  This will currently break the check in kvm-all.c by calling madvise() with
  a supported flag, which will not fail. Ideas/patches welcome.

v2 -> v3:
* Reuse the *_MADV_* defines for QEMU_MADV_*. Suggested by Alexander Graf.
* Add configure check for madvise(), too.
  Add defines to Makefile, not QEMU_CFLAGS.
  Convert all callers, untested. Suggested by Blue Swirl.
* Keep Solaris' madvise() prototype around. Pointed out by Alexander Graf.
* Display configure check results.

v1 -> v2:
* Don't rely on posix_madvise() availability, add qemu_madvise().
  Suggested by Blue Swirl.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@opensolaris.org>
Cc: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
2010-09-25 11:26:05 +00:00
Anthony Liguori
e945fb7627 Merge remote branch 'qemu-kvm/uq/master' into staging 2010-08-23 15:10:12 -05:00
Cam Macdonell
44f1a3d876 Add function to assign ioeventfd to MMIO.
Signed-off-by: Cam Macdonell <cam@cs.ualberta.ca>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2010-08-10 16:25:15 -05:00
Gleb Natapov
14542fea73 kvm: remove guest triggerable abort()
This abort() condition is easily triggerable by a guest if it configures
pci bar with unaligned address that overlaps main memory.

Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-08-05 09:57:36 -03:00
Alex Williamson
70fedd76d9 kvm: Don't walk memory_size == 0 slots in kvm_client_migration_log
If we've unregistered a memory area, we should avoid calling
qemu_get_ram_ptr() on the left over phys_offset cruft in the
slot array.  Now that we support removing ramblocks, the
phys_offset ram_addr_t can go away and cause a lookup fault
and abort.

Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-08-05 09:57:35 -03:00
Jan Kiszka
3c638d0690 Rework debug exception processing for gdb use
Guest debugging is currently broken under CONFIG_IOTHREAD. The reason is
inconsistent or even lacking signaling the debug events from the source
VCPU to the main loop and the gdbstub.

This patch addresses the issue by pushing this signaling into a
CPUDebugExcpHandler: cpu_debug_handler is registered as first handler,
thus will be executed last after potential breakpoint emulation
handlers. It sets informs the gdbstub about the debug event source,
requests a debug exit of the main loop and stops the current VCPU. This
mechanism works both for TCG and KVM, with and without IO-thread.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
2010-07-22 05:52:09 +02:00
Sheng Yang
f1665b21f1 kvm: Enable XSAVE live migration support
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-06-28 13:06:03 -03:00
Jan Kiszka
be41cbe036 kvm: Switch kvm_update_guest_debug to run_on_cpu
Guest debugging under KVM is currently broken once io-threads are
enabled. Easily fixable by switching the fake on_vcpu to the real
run_on_cpu implementation.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-06-28 13:06:03 -03:00
Gleb Natapov
4513d9232b Do not stop VM if emulation failed in userspace.
Continue vcpu execution in case emulation failure happened while vcpu
was in userspace. In this case #UD will be injected into the guest
allowing guest OS to kill offending process and continue.

Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-05-11 14:03:44 -03:00
Marcelo Tosatti
0af691d779 kvm: enable smp > 1
Process INIT/SIPI requests and enable -smp > 1.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-05-11 14:02:22 -03:00
Jan Kiszka
2705d56a6a kvm: synchronize state from cpu context
It is not safe to retrieve the KVM internal state of a given cpu
while its potentially modifying it.

Queue the request to run on cpu context, similarly to qemu-kvm.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-05-11 14:02:22 -03:00
Marcelo Tosatti
273faf1b6d kvm: set cpu_single_env around KVM_RUN ioctl
Zero cpu_single_env before leaving global lock protection, and
restore on return.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-05-11 14:02:21 -03:00
Marcelo Tosatti
8369e01ce4 kvm: port qemu-kvm's bitmap scanning
Which is significantly faster.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-04-28 13:41:15 -03:00
Marcelo Tosatti
7c80eef899 kvm: handle internal error
Port qemu-kvm's KVM_EXIT_INTERNAL_ERROR handling to upstream.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-04-26 11:28:35 -03:00
Jan Kiszka
ff44f1a373 KVM: x86: Add debug register saving and restoring
Make use of the new KVM_GET/SET_DEBUGREGS to save/restore the x86 debug
registers.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-04-26 11:28:35 -03:00
Paolo Bonzini
98c8573eb3 provide a stub version of kvm-all.c if !CONFIG_KVM
This allows limited use of kvm functions (which will return ENOSYS)
even in once-compiled modules.  The patch also improves a bit the error
messages for KVM initialization.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
[blauwirbel@gmail.com: fixed Win32 build]
Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
2010-04-19 18:59:30 +00:00
Blue Swirl
8c0d577eb5 kvm: avoid collision with dprintf macro in stdio.h, spotted by clang
Fixes clang errors:
  CC    i386-softmmu/kvm.o
/src/qemu/target-i386/kvm.c:40:9: error: 'dprintf' macro redefined
In file included from /src/qemu/target-i386/kvm.c:21:
In file included from /src/qemu/qemu-common.h:27:
In file included from /usr/include/stdio.h:910:
/usr/include/bits/stdio2.h:189:12: note: previous definition is here
  CC    i386-softmmu/kvm-all.o
/src/qemu/kvm-all.c:39:9: error: 'dprintf' macro redefined
In file included from /src/qemu/kvm-all.c:23:
In file included from /src/qemu/qemu-common.h:27:
In file included from /usr/include/stdio.h:910:
/usr/include/bits/stdio2.h:189:12: note: previous definition is here

Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
2010-04-18 14:22:14 +00:00
Alexander Graf
0104dcacf3 S390: Tell user why VM creation failed
The KVM kernel module on S390 refuses to create a VM when the switch_amode
kernel parameter is not used.

Since that is not exactly obvious, let's give the user a nice warning.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
2010-04-01 21:51:59 +02:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
ca82180603 kvm: add API to set ioeventfd
Comment on kvm usage: rather than require users to do if (kvm_enabled())
and/or ifdefs, this patch adds an API that, internally, is defined to
stub function on non-kvm build, and checks kvm_enabled for non-kvm
run.

While rest of qemu code still uses if (kvm_enabled()), I think this
approach is cleaner, and we should convert rest of code to it
long term.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2010-04-01 13:56:43 -05:00
Blue Swirl
d745bef890 Move KVM and Xen global flags to vl.c
Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
2010-03-29 19:23:49 +00:00
Jan Kiszka
ea375f9ab8 KVM: Rework VCPU state writeback API
This grand cleanup drops all reset and vmsave/load related
synchronization points in favor of four(!) generic hooks:

- cpu_synchronize_all_states in qemu_savevm_state_complete
  (initial sync from kernel before vmsave)
- cpu_synchronize_all_post_init in qemu_loadvm_state
  (writeback after vmload)
- cpu_synchronize_all_post_init in main after machine init
- cpu_synchronize_all_post_reset in qemu_system_reset
  (writeback after system reset)

These writeback points + the existing one of VCPU exec after
cpu_synchronize_state map on three levels of writeback:

- KVM_PUT_RUNTIME_STATE (during runtime, other VCPUs continue to run)
- KVM_PUT_RESET_STATE   (on synchronous system reset, all VCPUs stopped)
- KVM_PUT_FULL_STATE    (on init or vmload, all VCPUs stopped as well)

This level is passed to the arch-specific VCPU state writing function
that will decide which concrete substates need to be written. That way,
no writer of load, save or reset functions that interact with in-kernel
KVM states will ever have to worry about synchronization again. That
also means that a lot of reasons for races, segfaults and deadlocks are
eliminated.

cpu_synchronize_state remains untouched, just as Anthony suggested. We
continue to need it before reading or writing of VCPU states that are
also tracked by in-kernel KVM subsystems.

Consequently, this patch removes many cpu_synchronize_state calls that
are now redundant, just like remaining explicit register syncs.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-03-04 00:29:28 -03:00
Jan Kiszka
b0b1d69079 KVM: Rework of guest debug state writing
So far we synchronized any dirty VCPU state back into the kernel before
updating the guest debug state. This was a tribute to a deficite in x86
kernels before 2.6.33. But as this is an arch-dependent issue, it is
better handle in the x86 part of KVM and remove the writeback point for
generic code. This also avoids overwriting the flushed state later on if
user space decides to change some more registers before resuming the
guest.

We furthermore need to reinject guest exceptions via the appropriate
mechanism. That is KVM_SET_GUEST_DEBUG for older kernels and
KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS for recent ones. Using both mechanisms at the same
time will cause state corruptions.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-03-04 00:29:26 -03:00
Marcelo Tosatti
85199474d0 kvm-all.c: define smp_wmb and use it for coalesced mmio
Acked-by: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-02-22 19:04:13 +02:00
Marcelo Tosatti
6312b92853 kvm: remove pre-entry exit_request check with iothread enabled
With SIG_IPI blocked vcpu loop exit notification happens via -EAGAIN
from KVM_RUN.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-02-22 10:58:33 +02:00
Marcelo Tosatti
cc84de9570 kvm: consume internal signal with sigtimedwait
Change the way the internal qemu signal, used for communication between
iothread and vcpus, is handled.

Block and consume it with sigtimedwait on the outer vcpu loop, which
allows more precise timing control.

Change from standard signal (SIGUSR1) to real-time one, so multiple
signals are not collapsed.

Set the signal number on KVM's in-kernel allowed sigmask.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-02-22 10:58:33 +02:00
Amit Shah
a2eebe88fd kvm: reduce code duplication in config_iothread
We have some duplicated code in the CONFIG_IOTHREAD #ifdef and #else
cases. Fix that.

Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2010-02-10 12:45:04 -06:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
7b8f3b7834 kvm: move kvm to use memory notifiers
remove direct kvm calls from exec.c, make
kvm use memory notifiers framework instead.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2010-02-09 16:56:13 -06:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
46dbef6ade kvm: move kvm_set_phys_mem around
move kvm_set_phys_mem so that it will
be later available earlier in the file.
needed for next patch using memory notifiers.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2010-02-09 16:56:13 -06:00
Jan Kiszka
9ded274466 KVM: Move and rename regs_modified
Touching the user space representation of KVM's VCPU state is -
naturally - a per-VCPU thing. So move the dirty flag into KVM_CPU_COMMON
and rename it at this chance to reflect its true meaning.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
2010-02-03 19:47:34 -02:00
Sheng Yang
62a2744ca0 kvm: Flush coalesced MMIO buffer periodly
The default action of coalesced MMIO is, cache the writing in buffer, until:
1. The buffer is full.
2. Or the exit to QEmu due to other reasons.

But this would result in a very late writing in some condition.
1. The each time write to MMIO content is small.
2. The writing interval is big.
3. No need for input or accessing other devices frequently.

This issue was observed in a experimental embbed system. The test image
simply print "test" every 1 seconds. The output in QEmu meets expectation,
but the output in KVM is delayed for seconds.

Per Avi's suggestion, I hooked flushing coalesced MMIO buffer in VGA update
handler. By this way, We don't need vcpu explicit exit to QEmu to
handle this issue.

Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-02-03 19:47:33 -02:00
Jan Kiszka
a0fb002c64 kvm: x86: Add support for VCPU event states
This patch extends the qemu-kvm state sync logic with support for
KVM_GET/SET_VCPU_EVENTS, giving access to yet missing exception,
interrupt and NMI states.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-12-03 15:25:57 -06:00
Kevin Wolf
40ff6d7e8d Don't leak file descriptors
We're leaking file descriptors to child processes. Set FD_CLOEXEC on file
descriptors that don't need to be passed to children to stop this misbehaviour.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-12-03 11:45:50 -06:00
Jan Kiszka
caa5af0ff3 kvm: Add arch reset handler
Will be required by succeeding changes.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-11-17 08:49:37 -06:00
Hollis Blanchard
9bdbe550f0 kvm: Move KVM mp_state accessors to i386-specific code
Unbreaks PowerPC and S390 KVM builds.

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-11-12 11:23:55 -06:00
Glauber Costa
d549db5a73 unlock iothread mutex before running kvm ioctl
Without this, kvm will hold the mutex while it issues its run ioctl,
and never be able to step out of it, causing a deadlock.

Patchworks-ID: 35359
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-10-12 09:42:31 -05:00
Glauber Costa
828566bc33 temporary fix for on_vcpu
Recent changes made on_vcpu hit the abort() path, even with the IO thread
disabled. This is because cpu_single_env is no longer set when we call this
function. Although the correct fix is a little bit more complicated that that,
the recent thread in which I proposed qemu_queue_work (which fixes that, btw),
is likely to go on a quite different direction.

So for the benefit of those using guest debugging, I'm proposing this simple
fix in the interim.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-10-05 09:32:45 -05:00
Jan Kiszka
b3807725f6 kvm: Fix guest single-stepping
Hopefully the last regression of 4c0960c0: KVM_SET_GUEST_DEBUG requires
properly synchronized guest registers (on x86: eflags) on entry.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-10-05 09:32:45 -05:00
Anthony Liguori
c227f0995e Revert "Get rid of _t suffix"
In the very least, a change like this requires discussion on the list.

The naming convention is goofy and it causes a massive merge problem.  Something
like this _must_ be presented on the list first so people can provide input
and cope with it.

This reverts commit 99a0949b72.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-10-01 16:12:16 -05:00
malc
99a0949b72 Get rid of _t suffix
Some not so obvious bits, slirp and Xen were left alone for the time
being.

Signed-off-by: malc <av1474@comtv.ru>
2009-10-01 22:45:02 +04:00
Blue Swirl
afcea8cbde ioports: remove unused env parameter and compile only once
The CPU state parameter is not used, remove it and adjust callers. Now we
can compile ioport.c once for all targets.

Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
2009-09-20 16:05:47 +00:00
Blue Swirl
72cf2d4f0e Fix sys-queue.h conflict for good
Problem: Our file sys-queue.h is a copy of the BSD file, but there are
some additions and it's not entirely compatible. Because of that, there have
been conflicts with system headers on BSD systems. Some hacks have been
introduced in the commits 15cc923584,
f40d753718,
96555a96d7 and
3990d09adf but the fixes were fragile.

Solution: Avoid the conflict entirely by renaming the functions and the
file. Revert the previous hacks.

Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
2009-09-12 07:36:22 +00:00
Avi Kivity
4c0960c0c4 kvm: Simplify cpu_synchronize_state()
cpu_synchronize_state() is a little unreadable since the 'modified'
argument isn't self-explanatory.  Simplify it by making it always
synchronize the kernel state into qemu, and automatically flush the
registers back to the kernel if they've been synchronized on this
exit.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-08-27 20:35:30 -05:00
Anthony Liguori
6e489f3f88 Revert "Fake dirty loggin when it's not there"
This reverts commit bd83677612.

PPC should just implement dirty logging so we can avoid all the fall-out from
this changeset.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-07-27 15:26:43 -05:00
Luiz Capitulino
fc5d642fca Fix broken build
The only caller of on_vcpu() is protected by ifdef
KVM_CAP_SET_GUEST_DEBUG, so protect on_vcpu() too otherwise QEMU
may not to build.

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-07-27 14:09:15 -05:00
Alexander Graf
96c1606b33 Use Little Endian for Dirty Log
We currently use host endian long types to store information
in the dirty bitmap.

This works reasonably well on Little Endian targets, because the
u32 after the first contains the next 32 bits. On Big Endian this
breaks completely though, forcing us to be inventive here.

So Ben suggested to always use Little Endian, which looks reasonable.

We only have dirty bitmap implemented in Little Endian targets so far
and since PowerPC would be the first Big Endian platform, we can just
as well switch to Little Endian always with little effort without
breaking existing targets.

This is the userspace part of the patch. It shouldn't change anything
for existing targets, but help PowerPC.

It replaces my older patch called "Use 64bit pointer for dirty log".

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-07-27 14:09:14 -05:00