From 8b8e658b16336f0f50aba733f51db636ef121f50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Greg Kurz Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 14:50:36 +0200 Subject: macvtap/tun: cross-endian support for little-endian hosts The VNET_LE flag was introduced to fix accesses to virtio 1.0 headers that are always little-endian. It can also be used to handle the special case of a legacy little-endian device implemented by a big-endian host. Let's add a flag and ioctls for big-endian devices as well. If both flags are set, little-endian wins. Since this is isn't a common usecase, the feature is controlled by a kernel config option (not set by default). Both macvtap and tun are covered by this patch since they share the same API with userland. Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Reviewed-by: David Gibson --- include/uapi/linux/if_tun.h | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/uapi/linux') diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/if_tun.h b/include/uapi/linux/if_tun.h index 50ae243..3cb5e1d 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/if_tun.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/if_tun.h @@ -50,6 +50,12 @@ #define TUNGETFILTER _IOR('T', 219, struct sock_fprog) #define TUNSETVNETLE _IOW('T', 220, int) #define TUNGETVNETLE _IOR('T', 221, int) +/* The TUNSETVNETBE and TUNGETVNETBE ioctls are for cross-endian support on + * little-endian hosts. Not all kernel configurations support them, but all + * configurations that support SET also support GET. + */ +#define TUNSETVNETBE _IOW('T', 222, int) +#define TUNGETVNETBE _IOR('T', 223, int) /* TUNSETIFF ifr flags */ #define IFF_TUN 0x0001 -- cgit v1.1