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Alexander Graf c8240bd6f0 Use Little Endian for Dirty Bitmap 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>	2009-11-05 16:50:27 +11:00
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kvm	Use Little Endian for Dirty Bitmap	2009-11-05 16:50:27 +11:00

Alexander Graf c8240bd6f0 Use Little Endian for Dirty Bitmap

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>

2009-11-05 16:50:27 +11:00

kvm

Use Little Endian for Dirty Bitmap

2009-11-05 16:50:27 +11:00