Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:47:13 +0200 | From | Frederic Weisbecker <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] perf tools: fix endian conversion reading event attr from header |
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On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 09:19:19AM -0600, David Ahern wrote: > The perf_event_attr struct has 2 __u32's at the top and need to > be swapped individually. With this change I was able to analyze > a perf.data collected in a 32-bit PPC VM on an x86 system. I > tested both 32-bit and 64-bit binaries for the Intel analysis > side; both read the PPC perf.data file correctly. > > Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> > --- > tools/perf/util/header.c | 9 ++++++++- > 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/tools/perf/util/header.c b/tools/perf/util/header.c > index afb0849..8044c6f 100644 > --- a/tools/perf/util/header.c > +++ b/tools/perf/util/header.c > @@ -877,9 +877,16 @@ int perf_session__read_header(struct perf_session *session, int fd) > struct perf_evsel *evsel; > off_t tmp; > > - if (perf_header__getbuffer64(header, fd, &f_attr, sizeof(f_attr))) > + if (readn(fd, &f_attr, sizeof(f_attr)) <= 0) > goto out_errno; > > + if (header->needs_swap) { > + f_attr.attr.type = bswap_32(f_attr.attr.type); > + f_attr.attr.size = bswap_32(f_attr.attr.size); > + mem_bswap_64(&f_attr.attr.config, > + sizeof(struct perf_event_attr) - 8); > + } > +
Good catch!
But would be nice to also handle the wakeup_events and bp_type fields.
Thanks.
> tmp = lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_CUR); > evsel = perf_evsel__new(&f_attr.attr, i); > > -- > 1.7.6 >
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