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Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] powerpc/perf: Define big-endian version of perf_mem_data_src

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On Tuesday 07 March 2017 03:53 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 03:28:17PM +0530, Madhavan Srinivasan wrote:
>>
>> On Monday 06 March 2017 04:52 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>>> On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 04:13:08PM +0530, Madhavan Srinivasan wrote:
>>>> From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>>>>
>>>> perf_mem_data_src is an union that is initialized via the ->val field
>>>> and accessed via the bitmap fields. For this to work on big endian
>>>> platforms, we also need a big-endian represenation of perf_mem_data_src.
>>> Doesn't this break interpreting the data on a different endian machine?
>> IIUC, we will need this patch to not to break the interpreting data
>> on a different endian machine. Data collected from power8 LE/BE
>> guests with this patchset applied. Kindly correct me if I missed
>> your question here.
> So your patch adds compile time bitfield differences. My worry was that
> there was no dynamic conversion routine in the tools (it has for a lot
> of other places).
>
> This yields two questions:
>
>   - are these two static layouts identical? (seeing that you illustrate
>     cross-endian things working this seems likely).
>
>   - should you not have fixed this in the tool only? This patch
>     effectively breaks ABI on big-endian architectures.

IIUC, we are the first BE user for this feature
(Kindly correct me if I am wrong), so technically we
are not breaking ABI here :) .  But let me also look  at
the dynamic conversion part.

Maddy

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    Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] powerpc/perf: Define big-endian version of  perf_mem_data_src Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-03-06 12:30 +0100
      RE: [PATCH v2 1/6] powerpc/perf: Define big-endian version of  perf_mem_data_src David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM> - 2017-03-06 16:10 +0100
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