Re: Perf record format portability

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Wed May 16 2012 - 15:39:12 EST


On Wed, 2012-05-16 at 15:32 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-05-16 at 19:48 +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
>
> > for ppc64(record) vs x86_64(report) I got following report on latest tip:
> >
> > [jolsa@dhcp-26-214 test]$ ../perf report > report.target
> > Endianness of raw data not corrected!
> > Warning:
> > 718 samples with id not present in the header
> > Warning:
> > The perf.data file has no samples!
> >

What does perf script give you. It looks like Frederic took my code for
this when he ported the original parse-events over to perf. I see the
setup of these variables in tools/perf/util/trace-event-read.c

If you run 'perf script' on x86 from a ppc perf.dat file, do you still
get the same errors?

-- Steve


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