virtio: Force use of power-of-two for descriptor ring sizes
authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Mon, 12 Nov 2007 02:39:18 +0000 (13:39 +1100)
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Mon, 12 Nov 2007 02:59:40 +0000 (13:59 +1100)
The virtio descriptor rings of size N-1 were nicely set up to be
aligned to an N-byte boundary.  But as Anthony Liguori points out, the
free-running indices used by virtio require that the sizes be a power
of 2, otherwise we get problems on wrap (demonstrated with lguest).

So we replace the clever "2^n-1" scheme with a simple "align to page
boundary" scheme: this means that all virtio rings take at least two
pages, but it's safer than guessing cache alignment.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

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