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authorJiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>2012-05-16 08:59:04 +0200
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2012-05-22 12:50:25 -0300
commit6a11f92ef449bfb87f93e7cc14cb2a717afc7aa3 (patch)
tree1be870956fc0f32e4eb45ded9667cf565fc9e695 /tools/perf
parente108c66e2c458f89931189a63a67ad16880d7f51 (diff)
perf tools: Add union u64_swap type for swapping u64 data
The following union: union { u64 val64; u32 val32[2]; } u; is used on more than one place in perf code and will be used more in upcomming patches. Adding union u64_swap to have it defined globaly so we dont need to redefine it all the time. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Tested-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1337151548-2396-4-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/evsel.c10
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/types.h5
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
index 9abd8ac508e..57e4ce57bbc 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
@@ -462,10 +462,7 @@ int perf_event__parse_sample(const union perf_event *event, u64 type,
* used for cross-endian analysis. See git commit 65014ab3
* for why this goofiness is needed.
*/
- union {
- u64 val64;
- u32 val32[2];
- } u;
+ union u64_swap u;
memset(data, 0, sizeof(*data));
data->cpu = data->pid = data->tid = -1;
@@ -608,10 +605,7 @@ int perf_event__synthesize_sample(union perf_event *event, u64 type,
* used for cross-endian analysis. See git commit 65014ab3
* for why this goofiness is needed.
*/
- union {
- u64 val64;
- u32 val32[2];
- } u;
+ union u64_swap u;
array = event->sample.array;
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/types.h b/tools/perf/util/types.h
index 5f3689a3d08..c51fa6b70a2 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/types.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/types.h
@@ -16,4 +16,9 @@ typedef signed short s16;
typedef unsigned char u8;
typedef signed char s8;
+union u64_swap {
+ u64 val64;
+ u32 val32[2];
+};
+
#endif /* __PERF_TYPES_H */