Re: [PATCH v3 1/6] powerpc/perf: Define big-endian version of perf_mem_data_src

From	Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH v3 1/6] powerpc/perf: Define big-endian version of perf_mem_data_src
Date	2017-04-20 00:20 +0200
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Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> On Wednesday 19 April 2017 10:20 AM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>> It also occurred to me that we don't actually have to redefine the whole
>> union, it's only the bitfields that matter, so we could reduce the diff
>> to:
>>
>> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
>> index c66a485a24ac..97152c79df6b 100644
>> --- a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
>> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
>> @@ -894,12 +894,23 @@ enum perf_callchain_context {
>>   union perf_mem_data_src {
>>   	__u64 val;
>>   	struct {
>> +#if defined(__LITTLE_ENDIAN_BITFIELD)
>>   		__u64   mem_op:5,	/* type of opcode */
>>   			mem_lvl:14,	/* memory hierarchy level */
>>   			mem_snoop:5,	/* snoop mode */
>>   			mem_lock:2,	/* lock instr */
>>   			mem_dtlb:7,	/* tlb access */
>>   			mem_rsvd:31;
>> +#elif defined(__BIG_ENDIAN_BITFIELD)
>> +		__u64	mem_rsvd:31,
>> +			mem_dtlb:7,	/* tlb access */
>> +			mem_lock:2,	/* lock instr */
>> +			mem_snoop:5,	/* snoop mode */
>> +			mem_lvl:14,	/* memory hierarchy level */
>> +			mem_op:5;	/* type of opcode */
>> +#else
>> +#error "Unknown endianness"
>> +#endif
>>   	};
>>   };
>>
>>
>> That looks better to me, thoughts?
>
> Yep.  Looks fine to me and also tested the same.

I merged the original version, as that's what Peterz acked and I didn't
want to block the series any longer.

I'll send an incremental patch to do the cleanup.

cheers

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  [PATCH v3 5/6] powerpc/perf: Support to export SIERs bit in Power9 Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-04-11 04:00 +0200
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  [PATCH v3 1/6] powerpc/perf: Define big-endian version of perf_mem_data_src Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-04-11 04:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v3 1/6] powerpc/perf: Define big-endian version of  perf_mem_data_src Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-04-13 14:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v3 1/6] powerpc/perf: Define big-endian version of perf_mem_data_src Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> - 2017-04-13 15:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v3 1/6] powerpc/perf: Define big-endian version of  perf_mem_data_src Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-04-17 05:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v3 1/6] powerpc/perf: Define big-endian version of  perf_mem_data_src Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-04-17 05:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v3 1/6] powerpc/perf: Define big-endian version of perf_mem_data_src Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> - 2017-04-19 07:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v3 1/6] powerpc/perf: Define big-endian version of  perf_mem_data_src Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-04-19 16:50 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v3 1/6] powerpc/perf: Define big-endian version of perf_mem_data_src Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> - 2017-04-20 00:20 +0200
    Re: [v3, 1/6] powerpc/perf: Define big-endian version of perf_mem_data_src Michael Ellerman <patch-notifications@ellerman.id.au> - 2017-04-20 00:10 +0200
  [PATCH v3 3/6] powerpc/perf: Support to export MMCRA[TEC*] field to userspace Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-04-11 04:00 +0200

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