virtio: memory access APIs

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>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 59 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/virtio_byteorder.h b/include/linux/virtio_byteorder.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..51865d05b267
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/virtio_byteorder.h
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+#ifndef _LINUX_VIRTIO_BYTEORDER_H
+#define _LINUX_VIRTIO_BYTEORDER_H
+#include <linux/types.h>
+#include <uapi/linux/virtio_types.h>
+
+/*
+ * Low-level memory accessors for handling virtio in modern little endian and in
+ * compatibility native endian format.
+ */
+
+static inline u16 __virtio16_to_cpu(bool little_endian, __virtio16 val)
+{
+	if (little_endian)
+		return le16_to_cpu((__force __le16)val);
+	else
+		return (__force u16)val;
+}
+
+static inline __virtio16 __cpu_to_virtio16(bool little_endian, u16 val)
+{
+	if (little_endian)
+		return (__force __virtio16)cpu_to_le16(val);
+	else
+		return (__force __virtio16)val;
+}
+
+static inline u32 __virtio32_to_cpu(bool little_endian, __virtio32 val)
+{
+	if (little_endian)
+		return le32_to_cpu((__force __le32)val);
+	else
+		return (__force u32)val;
+}
+
+static inline __virtio32 __cpu_to_virtio32(bool little_endian, u32 val)
+{
+	if (little_endian)
+		return (__force __virtio32)cpu_to_le32(val);
+	else
+		return (__force __virtio32)val;
+}
+
+static inline u64 __virtio64_to_cpu(bool little_endian, __virtio64 val)
+{
+	if (little_endian)
+		return le64_to_cpu((__force __le64)val);
+	else
+		return (__force u64)val;
+}
+
+static inline __virtio64 __cpu_to_virtio64(bool little_endian, u64 val)
+{
+	if (little_endian)
+		return (__force __virtio64)cpu_to_le64(val);
+	else
+		return (__force __virtio64)val;
+}
+
+#endif /* _LINUX_VIRTIO_BYTEORDER */