Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] powerpc/perf: Define big-endian version of perf_mem_data_src

[Madhavan Srinivasan]

On Monday 13 March 2017 06:20 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 04:45:51PM +0530, Madhavan Srinivasan wrote:
> > >   - should you not have fixed this in the tool only? This patch
> > >     effectively breaks ABI on big-endian architectures.
> > IIUC, we are the first BE user for this feature
> > (Kindly correct me if I am wrong), so technically we
> > are not breaking ABI here :) .  But let me also look  at
> > the dynamic conversion part.
> Huh? PPC hasn't yet implemented this? Then why are you fixing it?

yes, PPC hasn't implemented this (until now).
And did not understand "Then why are you fixing it?"

Maddy
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