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 <suka...@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.