Use Little Endian for Dirty Bitmap
authorAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:47:26 +0000 (05:47 +0000)
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Thu, 5 Nov 2009 05:50:27 +0000 (16:50 +1100)
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.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c

index 7495ce3473448cd45ee1dba9e0ae441c83245ca4..cdca63917e772cdb56a58046ac1d6f2a2f5d9bcd 100644 (file)
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@
 #include <asm/io.h>
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 #include <asm/pgtable.h>
+#include <asm-generic/bitops/le.h>
 
 #ifdef KVM_COALESCED_MMIO_PAGE_OFFSET
 #include "coalesced_mmio.h"
@@ -1665,8 +1666,8 @@ void mark_page_dirty(struct kvm *kvm, gfn_t gfn)
                unsigned long rel_gfn = gfn - memslot->base_gfn;
 
                /* avoid RMW */
-               if (!test_bit(rel_gfn, memslot->dirty_bitmap))
-                       set_bit(rel_gfn, memslot->dirty_bitmap);
+               if (!generic_test_le_bit(rel_gfn, memslot->dirty_bitmap))
+                       generic___set_le_bit(rel_gfn, memslot->dirty_bitmap);
        }
 }
 
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