Re: [PATCH] perf tool: fix endianness handling of u32 data in samples

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Fri Sep 02 2011 - 16:03:09 EST


Em Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 01:41:51PM -0600, David Ahern escreveu:
> @@ -423,18 +449,25 @@ int perf_event__parse_sample(const union perf_event *event, u64 type,
> }
>
> if (type & PERF_SAMPLE_RAW) {
> - u32 *p = (u32 *)array;
> + u.val64 = *array;
> + if (swapped) {
> + /* undo swap of u64, then swap on individual u32s */
> + u.val64 = bswap_64(u.val64);
> + u.val32[0] = bswap_32(u.val32[0]);
> + u.val32[1] = bswap_32(u.val32[1]);
> +
> + WARN_ONCE(swapped, "Endianness of raw data not corrected!\n");
> + }

That works too, but then we'll be always testing swapped two times :-)

- Arnaldo
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