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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, acme@redhat.com, mingo@elte.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf: make perf.data more self-descriptive (v4)
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:43:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1315838611.26517.51.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABPqkBQWd=DyRRDhaxwDGrpCs=XqyTUv72+dn7GKsT=kjPqiJg@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 16:40 +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> I don't think this should be the test to detect endianess.

You should be able to tell the endianness from the PERF_MAGIC string, it
stores the string as a u64, so depending on endianness it reads back as
either: PERFFILE or ELIFFREP or whatever the bswap64 result is.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-12 14:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-07 19:10 [PATCH] perf: make perf.data more self-descriptive (v4) Stephane Eranian
2011-09-08 15:27 ` David Ahern
     [not found]   ` <CABPqkBRKcxeTDMyVYPXU6AQEY-Hp2bnE03ebEtvjYWde2JKqoQ@mail.gmail.com>
2011-09-08 15:37     ` David Ahern
2011-09-08 15:42   ` Stephane Eranian
2011-09-12 13:45 ` David Ahern
2011-09-12 13:54   ` Stephane Eranian
2011-09-12 14:33     ` David Ahern
2011-09-12 14:40       ` Stephane Eranian
2011-09-12 14:43         ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2011-09-12 14:47           ` Stephane Eranian
2011-09-13 14:40             ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2011-09-16 14:35           ` Stephane Eranian
2011-09-16 14:37             ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-16 14:44               ` Stephane Eranian
2011-09-16 14:52                 ` David Ahern
2011-09-16 14:56                   ` Stephane Eranian
2011-09-16 14:50             ` David Ahern
2011-09-16 15:19               ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-16 15:33                 ` David Ahern
2011-09-16 15:42                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-16 16:34                   ` Stephane Eranian

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