Commit 7d820b76 authored by Peter Maydell's avatar Peter Maydell
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bswap.h: Document cpu_to_* and *_to_cpu conversion functions



Add a documentation comment describing the functions for
converting between the cpu and little or bigendian formats.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarEric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1467908460-27048-6-git-send-email-peter.maydell@linaro.org
parent cbe967f4
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@@ -80,6 +80,64 @@ static inline void bswap64s(uint64_t *s)
#define be_bswaps(p, size) do { *p = glue(bswap, size)(*p); } while(0)
#endif

/**
 * Endianness conversion functions between host cpu and specified endianness.
 * (We list the complete set of prototypes produced by the macros below
 * to assist people who search the headers to find their definitions.)
 *
 * uint16_t le16_to_cpu(uint16_t v);
 * uint32_t le32_to_cpu(uint32_t v);
 * uint64_t le64_to_cpu(uint64_t v);
 * uint16_t be16_to_cpu(uint16_t v);
 * uint32_t be32_to_cpu(uint32_t v);
 * uint64_t be64_to_cpu(uint64_t v);
 *
 * Convert the value @v from the specified format to the native
 * endianness of the host CPU by byteswapping if necessary, and
 * return the converted value.
 *
 * uint16_t cpu_to_le16(uint16_t v);
 * uint32_t cpu_to_le32(uint32_t v);
 * uint64_t cpu_to_le64(uint64_t v);
 * uint16_t cpu_to_be16(uint16_t v);
 * uint32_t cpu_to_be32(uint32_t v);
 * uint64_t cpu_to_be64(uint64_t v);
 *
 * Convert the value @v from the native endianness of the host CPU to
 * the specified format by byteswapping if necessary, and return
 * the converted value.
 *
 * void le16_to_cpus(uint16_t *v);
 * void le32_to_cpus(uint32_t *v);
 * void le64_to_cpus(uint64_t *v);
 * void be16_to_cpus(uint16_t *v);
 * void be32_to_cpus(uint32_t *v);
 * void be64_to_cpus(uint64_t *v);
 *
 * Do an in-place conversion of the value pointed to by @v from the
 * specified format to the native endianness of the host CPU.
 *
 * void cpu_to_le16s(uint16_t *v);
 * void cpu_to_le32s(uint32_t *v);
 * void cpu_to_le64s(uint64_t *v);
 * void cpu_to_be16s(uint16_t *v);
 * void cpu_to_be32s(uint32_t *v);
 * void cpu_to_be64s(uint64_t *v);
 *
 * Do an in-place conversion of the value pointed to by @v from the
 * native endianness of the host CPU to the specified format.
 *
 * Both X_to_cpu() and cpu_to_X() perform the same operation; you
 * should use whichever one is better documenting of the function your
 * code is performing.
 *
 * Do not use these functions for conversion of values which are in guest
 * memory, since the data may not be sufficiently aligned for the host CPU's
 * load and store instructions. Instead you should use the ld*_p() and
 * st*_p() functions, which perform loads and stores of data of any
 * required size and endianness and handle possible misalignment.
 */

#define CPU_CONVERT(endian, size, type)\
static inline type endian ## size ## _to_cpu(type v)\
{\