linux/tools/perf
Jiri Olsa e108c66e2c perf tools: Carry perf_event_attr bitfield throught different endians
When the perf data file is read cross architectures, the
perf_event__attr_swap function takes care about endianness of all the
struct fields except the bitfield flags.

The bitfield flags need to be transformed as well, since the bitfield
binary storage differs for both endians.

ABI says:
  Bit-fields are allocated from right to left (least to most significant)
  on little-endian implementations and from left to right (most to least
  significant) on big-endian implementations.

The above seems to be byte specific, so we need to reverse each byte of
the bitfield. 'Internet' also says this might be implementation specific
and we probably need proper fix and carry perf_event_attr bitfield flags
in separate data file FEAT_ section. Thought this seems to work for now.

Note, running following to test perf endianity handling:
test 1)
  - origin system:
    # perf record -a -- sleep 10 (any perf record will do)
    # perf report > report.origin
    # perf archive perf.data

  - copy the perf.data, report.origin and perf.data.tar.bz2
    to a target system and run:
    # tar xjvf perf.data.tar.bz2 -C ~/.debug
    # perf report > report.target
    # diff -u report.origin report.target

  - the diff should produce no output
    (besides some white space stuff and possibly different
     date/TZ output)

test 2)
  - origin system:
    # perf record -ag -fo /tmp/perf.data -- sleep 1
  - mount origin system root to the target system on /mnt/origin
  - target system:
    # perf script --symfs /mnt/origin -I -i /mnt/origin/tmp/perf.data \
     --kallsyms /mnt/origin/proc/kallsyms
  - complete perf.data header is displayed

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Tested-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1337151548-2396-3-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-05-22 12:48:24 -03:00
..
arch perf tools: Use scnprintf where applicable 2012-03-14 12:36:19 -03:00
bench perf tool: Fix perf stack to non executable on x86_64 2012-02-06 19:14:17 -02:00
config perf report: Add a simple GTK2-based 'perf report' browser 2012-03-19 15:13:29 -03:00
Documentation perf record: Fix documentation for branch stack sampling 2012-05-22 12:47:45 -03:00
python perf python: Use attr.watermark in twatch.py 2012-01-30 18:38:23 -02:00
scripts perf script: Add drop monitor script 2011-09-29 16:41:37 -03:00
ui perf annotate browser: Add key bindings help window 2012-05-12 16:36:55 -03:00
util perf tools: Carry perf_event_attr bitfield throught different endians 2012-05-22 12:48:24 -03:00
.gitignore perf tools: Ignore auto-generated bison/flex files 2012-04-14 13:50:39 -03:00
builtin-annotate.c perf annotate: Get rid of field_sep check 2012-01-08 13:29:34 -02:00
builtin-bench.c perf bench: Also allow measuring memset() 2012-01-24 20:25:32 -02:00
builtin-buildid-cache.c perf buildid: add perfconfig option to specify buildid cache dir 2010-06-05 09:34:04 -03:00
builtin-buildid-list.c perf report: Accept fifos as input file 2011-12-23 17:01:03 -02:00
builtin-diff.c perf diff: Fix to work with new hists design 2012-03-22 15:12:09 -03:00
builtin-evlist.c perf report: Accept fifos as input file 2011-12-23 17:01:03 -02:00
builtin-help.c perf options: Type check all the remaining OPT_ variants 2010-05-17 16:22:41 -03:00
builtin-inject.c perf tools: Rename perf_event_ops to perf_tool 2011-11-28 10:39:28 -02:00
builtin-kmem.c perf: Have perf use the new libtraceevent.a library 2012-04-25 13:28:48 +02:00
builtin-kvm.c perf kvm: Do guest-only counting by default 2012-01-06 15:47:37 -02:00
builtin-list.c perf list: Allow filtering list of events 2011-02-17 15:38:58 -02:00
builtin-lock.c perf: Have perf use the new libtraceevent.a library 2012-04-25 13:28:48 +02:00
builtin-probe.c perf probe: Rename target_module to target 2012-02-02 17:39:15 -02:00
builtin-record.c perf target: Add uses_mmap field 2012-05-17 12:32:54 -03:00
builtin-report.c Merge remote-tracking branch 'tip/perf/urgent' into perf/core 2012-05-18 13:13:33 -03:00
builtin-sched.c perf: Have perf use the new libtraceevent.a library 2012-04-25 13:28:48 +02:00
builtin-script.c perf: Have perf use the new libtraceevent.a library 2012-04-25 13:28:48 +02:00
builtin-stat.c Merge remote-tracking branch 'tip/perf/urgent' into perf/core 2012-05-18 13:13:33 -03:00
builtin-test.c perf test: Move parse event automated tests to separated object 2012-05-22 11:19:16 -03:00
builtin-timechart.c perf report: Accept fifos as input file 2011-12-23 17:01:03 -02:00
builtin-top.c perf target: Add cpu flag to sample_type if target has cpu 2012-05-22 12:37:12 -03:00
builtin.h perf tools: Make perf.data more self-descriptive (v8) 2011-10-07 17:01:24 -03:00
command-list.txt perf evlist: New command to list the names of events present in a perf.data file 2011-03-15 11:10:48 -03:00
CREDITS
design.txt perf: Fix few typos + cosmetics 2010-01-13 17:39:44 +01:00
Makefile perf tools: Always try to build libtraceevent 2012-05-22 12:35:29 -03:00
MANIFEST perf tools: Fix out of tree compiles 2012-02-13 22:46:41 -02:00
perf-archive.sh perf archive: Correct cutting of symbolic link 2012-04-14 13:52:15 -03:00
perf.c perf tools: Simplify debugfs mountpoint handling code 2011-11-28 10:11:28 -02:00
perf.h perf target: Split out perf_target handling code 2012-05-02 15:41:11 -03:00