Re: ftrace histogram sorting broken on BE architecures

[Steven Rostedt]

On Wed, 11 Dec 2019 10:37:18 -0600
Tom Zanussi <zanussi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Tom,
> > 
> > Correct me if I'm wrong, from what I can tell, all sums and keys are
> > u64 unless they are a string. Thus, I believe this patch should not
> > have any issues.  
> 
> The sums are u64, but the keys may not be.  I'll take a look and see,

Are they? I see in create_key_field:

	key_size = ALIGN(key_size, sizeof(u64));

Which to me seems that we'll have nothing smaller than sizeof(u64).

> but I'm out today and won't be able to look into it until tomorrow, if
> that's ok.

No rush.

I'll start the testing of this patch if you come back and say its
fine ;-) That takes a full day.

-- Steve