On Sun, 30 Nov 2014 17:09:50 +0200
"Michael S. Tsirkin" [off-list ref] wrote:

virtio 1.0 makes all memory structures LE, so
we need APIs to conditionally do a byteswap on BE
architectures.

To make it easier to check code statically,
add virtio specific types for multi-byte integers
in memory.

Add low level wrappers that do a byteswap conditionally, these will be
useful e.g. for vhost.  Add high level wrappers that
query device endian-ness and act accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
---
 include/linux/virtio_byteorder.h  | 59 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/virtio_config.h     | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++
 include/uapi/linux/virtio_ring.h  | 45 ++++++++++++++---------------
 include/uapi/linux/virtio_types.h | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/uapi/linux/Kbuild         |  1 +
 5 files changed, 161 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 include/linux/virtio_byteorder.h
 create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/virtio_types.h

Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <redacted>