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Revision 5fc835284d45a10a181b5c3f149a701e0391d1b2 authored by Linus Torvalds on 03 July 2015, 23:02:25 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 03 July 2015, 23:02:25 UTC
Pull virtio/vhost cross endian support from Michael Tsirkin:
 "I have just queued some more bugfix patches today but none fix
  regressions and none are related to these ones, so it looks like a
  good time for a merge for -rc1.

  The motivation for this is support for legacy BE guests on the new LE
  hosts.  There are two redeeming properties that made me merge this:

   - It's a trivial amount of code: since we wrap host/guest accesses
     anyway, almost all of it is well hidden from drivers.

   - Sane platforms would never set flags like VHOST_CROSS_ENDIAN_LEGACY,
     and when it's clear, there's zero overhead (as some point it was
     tested by compiling with and without the patches, got the same
     stripped binary).

  Maybe we could create a Kconfig symbol to enforce the second point:
  prevent people from enabling it eg on x86.  I will look into this"

* tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost:
  virtio-pci: alloc only resources actually used.
  macvtap/tun: cross-endian support for little-endian hosts
  vhost: cross-endian support for legacy devices
  virtio: add explicit big-endian support to memory accessors
  vhost: introduce vhost_is_little_endian() helper
  vringh: introduce vringh_is_little_endian() helper
  macvtap: introduce macvtap_is_little_endian() helper
  tun: add tun_is_little_endian() helper
  virtio: introduce virtio_is_little_endian() helper
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Tip revision: 5fc835284d45a10a181b5c3f149a701e0391d1b2 authored by Linus Torvalds on 03 July 2015, 23:02:25 UTC
Merge tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost
Tip revision: 5fc8352
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