Re: [PATCH] perf: make perf.data more self-descriptive (v4)

[Stephane Eranian]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 16:40 +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
>> I don't think this should be the test to detect endianess.
>
> You should be able to tell the endianness from the PERF_MAGIC string, it
> stores the string as a u64, so depending on endianness it reads back as
> either: PERFFILE or ELIFFREP or whatever the bswap64 result is.
>
right, something like that...
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