On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 01:20:51PM +0100, Cornelia Huck wrote:

On Sun, 30 Nov 2014 17:11:44 +0200
"Michael S. Tsirkin" [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

vhost/net keeps a copy of some used ring but (ab)uses length
field for internal house-keeping. This works because
for tx used length is always 0.
Suppress sparse errors: we use native endian-ness internally but never
expose it to guest.

I admit that I find this patch description hard to read :)


"vhost/net keeps a copy of the used ring in host memory but (ab)uses
the length field for internal house-keeping. This works because the
length in the used ring for tx is always 0. In order to suppress sparse
errors, we need to force native endianness."

?

Yes. Add to this "These values are never exposed to guest."

quoted

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
---
 drivers/vhost/net.c | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/vhost/net.c b/drivers/vhost/net.c
index 8dae2f7..dce5c58 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/net.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/net.c

@@ -48,15 +48,15 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(experimental_zcopytx, "Enable Zero Copy TX;"
  * status internally; used for zerocopy tx only.
  */
 /* Lower device DMA failed */
-#define VHOST_DMA_FAILED_LEN	3
+#define VHOST_DMA_FAILED_LEN	((__force __virtio32)3)
 /* Lower device DMA done */
-#define VHOST_DMA_DONE_LEN	2
+#define VHOST_DMA_DONE_LEN	((__force __virtio32)2)
 /* Lower device DMA in progress */
-#define VHOST_DMA_IN_PROGRESS	1
+#define VHOST_DMA_IN_PROGRESS	((__force __virtio32)1)
 /* Buffer unused */
-#define VHOST_DMA_CLEAR_LEN	0
+#define VHOST_DMA_CLEAR_LEN	((__force __virtio32)0)

-#define VHOST_DMA_IS_DONE(len) ((len) >= VHOST_DMA_DONE_LEN)
+#define VHOST_DMA_IS_DONE(len) ((__force u32)(len) >= (__force u32)VHOST_DMA_DONE_LEN)

 enum {
 	VHOST_NET_FEATURES = VHOST_FEATURES |