On 03.02.15 06:36, David Gibson wrote: > Sometimes the KVM code on powerpc needs to emulate load or store > instructions from the guest, which can include both normal and byte > reversed forms. > > We currently (AFAICT) handle this correctly, but some variable names are > very misleading. In particular we use "is_bigendian" in several places to > actually mean "is the IO the same endian as the host", but we now support > little-endian powerpc hosts. This also ties into the misleadingly named > ld_le*() and st_le*() functions, which in fact always byteswap, even on > an LE host. > > This patch cleans this up by renaming to more accurate "host_swabbed", and > uses the generic swab*() functions instead of the powerpc specific and > misleadingly named ld_le*() and st_le*() functions. > > Signed-off-by: David Gibson <da...@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
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