Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 10 Apr 2015 10:27:26 +0200 | From | Jiri Olsa <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] perf tool: Fix cross-endian analysis |
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On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 04:15:46PM -0400, David Ahern wrote: > Trying to analyze a big endian data file on little endian system > fails with the error: > 0xa9b40 [0x70]: failed to process type: 9 > > The problem is that header parsing is not done correctly because > the file attributes are not swapped. Make it so. With this patch > able to analyze a sparc64 data file on x86_64. > > Signed-off-by: David Ahern <david.ahern@oracle.com> > Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> > Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> > --- > tools/perf/util/header.c | 5 ++++- > 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/tools/perf/util/header.c b/tools/perf/util/header.c > index e38cf62..45b7e72 100644 > --- a/tools/perf/util/header.c > +++ b/tools/perf/util/header.c > @@ -2586,8 +2586,11 @@ int perf_session__read_header(struct perf_session *session) > if (read_attr(fd, header, &f_attr) < 0) > goto out_errno; > > - if (header->needs_swap) > + if (header->needs_swap) { > + f_attr.ids.size = bswap_64(f_attr.ids.size); > + f_attr.ids.offset = bswap_64(f_attr.ids.offset); > perf_event__attr_swap(&f_attr.attr); > + }
so people do actually use it ;-)
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
thanks, jirka
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