Re: ftrace histogram sorting broken on BE architecures

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Tue, 17 Dec 2019 10:05:57 +0000
David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM> wrote:

> From: Steven Rostedt
> > Sent: 16 December 2019 18:29
> > On Mon, 16 Dec 2019 17:06:50 +0000
> > David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM> wrote:
> >   
> > > > Where original_val_a could be a byte, short, int, long or long long.  
> > >
> > > I'd sort of guessed that, but then the pointer type passed to tracing_map_cmp_##type()
> > > will always be 'u64 *' (since the field the address is taken of must be that type).
> > > Then the (u64 *) casts are no longer needed.
> > >
> > > Possibly you can just pass the u64 values to:
> > > tracing_map_cmp_##type(type a, type b)
> > > {
> > > 	return a > b ? 1 : a < b ? -1 : 0;
> > > }
> > >
> > > The high bit masking and sign extension is then implicit in the call.  
> > 
> > But these are used to pass into a compare function that takes compare
> > functions that are something other than numbers. They can be pointers
> > to strings.  
> 
> In that case I think I'd embed the u64 inside a structure and pass the structure
> address to the compare function.
> 

It's something we can clean up later. As this is going to be marked for
stable, and the code still works, I would like to keep the change as
simple as possible.

Thanks!

-- Steve