linux/tools
Stephane Eranian 114382a0ae perf tools: Make perf able to read files from older ABIs
This patches provides a way to handle legacy perf.data
files.  Legacy files are those using the older PERFFILE
signature.

For those, it is still necessary to detect endianness but
without comparing their header->attr_size with the
tool's own version as it may be different. Instead, we use
a reference table for all known sizes from the legacy era.

We try all the combinations for sizes and endianness. If we find
a match, we proceed, otherwise we return: "incompatible file
format".

This is also done for the pipe-mode file format.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: ming.m.lin@intel.com
Cc: andi@firstfloor.org
Cc: asharma@fb.com
Cc: ravitillo@lbl.gov
Cc: vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu
Cc: khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: dsahern@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328826068-11713-19-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-03-09 08:26:07 +01:00
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firewire tools/firewire: nosy-dump: increment program version 2010-07-27 11:04:12 +02:00
hv Staging: hv: move hyperv code out of staging directory 2011-10-10 22:52:55 -06:00
lguest lguest: move the lguest tool to the tools directory 2012-01-12 15:44:47 +10:30
nfsd NFSD: Added fault injection script 2011-11-07 21:10:47 -05:00
perf perf tools: Make perf able to read files from older ABIs 2012-03-09 08:26:07 +01:00
power Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux 2012-01-18 15:51:48 -08:00
slub Merge branches 'slab/next' and 'slub/partial' into slab/for-linus 2011-10-26 18:09:12 +03:00
testing Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-ktest 2012-01-16 17:53:27 -08:00
usb USB: ffs-test: fix header path 2011-02-28 19:27:12 -08:00
virtio virtio: rename virtqueue_add_buf_gfp to virtqueue_add_buf 2012-01-12 15:44:42 +10:30