Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH] target-ppc: ppc64 target's virtio can be either endian.

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Mon, 2013-12-09 at 16:33 +0100, Alexander Graf wrote:
> 
> Also can't virtio_get_byteswap pass in the CPU pointer of the CPU
> that's calling in this moment? I'm not sure how racy it is to
> synchronize the first cpu while we're not in the first cpu's execution
> thread.

The LPCR bit is always set on all CPUs.

> Either way, if we do this "right" we don't even have to jump through
> these hoops, as little endian setting simply happens steered from
> QEMU, so QEMU will have all knowledge about the guest's little endian
> mode without the need to synchronize any state.

Ben.