Re: [PATCH 2/7] perf, tool: Carry perf_event_attr bitfield throught different endians

[David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>]

On 5/16/12 12:59 AM, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> When the perf data file is read cross architectures, the perf_event__attr_swap
> function takes care about endianness of all the struct fields except the
> bitfield flags.
>
> The bitfield flags need to be transformed as well, since the bitfield
> binary storage differs for both endians.
>
> ABI says:
>    Bit-fields are allocated from right to left (least to most significant)
>    on little-endian implementations and from left to right (most to least
>    significant) on big-endian implementations.
>
> The above seems to be byte specific, so we need to reverse each
> byte of the bitfield. 'Internet' also says this might be implementation
> specific and we probably need proper fix and carry perf_event_attr
> bitfield flags in separate data file FEAT_ section. Thought this seems
> to work for now.
>
> Note, running following to test perf endianity handling:
> test 1)
>    - origin system:
>      # perf record -a -- sleep 10 (any perf record will do)
>      # perf report>  report.origin
>      # perf archive perf.data
>
>    - copy the perf.data, report.origin and perf.data.tar.bz2
>      to a target system and run:
>      # tar xjvf perf.data.tar.bz2 -C ~/.debug
>      # perf report>  report.target
>      # diff -u report.origin report.target
>
>    - the diff should produce no output
>      (besides some white space stuff and possibly different
>       date/TZ output)
>
> test 2)
>    - origin system:
>      # perf record -ag -fo /tmp/perf.data -- sleep 1
>    - mount origin system root to the target system on /mnt/origin
>    - target system:
>      # perf script --symfs /mnt/origin -I -i /mnt/origin/tmp/perf.data \
>       --kallsyms /mnt/origin/proc/kallsyms
>    - complete perf.data header is displayed
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa<jolsa@redhat.com>
> ---
>   tools/perf/util/session.c |   34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   1 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)


Reviewed-by and Tested-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>