[PATCH] tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util: Fix is_compat_mode build break in ppc64

Namhyung Kim namhyung at kernel.org
Tue Mar 25 03:34:37 AEDT 2025


On Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:37:26 +0530, Likhitha Korrapati wrote:
> Commit 54f9aa1092457 ("tools/perf/powerpc/util: Add support to
> handle compatible mode PVR for perf json events") introduced
> to select proper JSON events in case of compat mode using
> auxiliary vector. But this caused a compilation error in ppc64
> Big Endian.
> 
> arch/powerpc/util/header.c: In function 'is_compat_mode':
> arch/powerpc/util/header.c:20:21: error: cast to pointer from
> integer of different size [-Werror=int-to-pointer-cast]
>    20 |         if (!strcmp((char *)platform, (char *)base_platform))
>       |                     ^
> arch/powerpc/util/header.c:20:39: error: cast to pointer from
> integer of different size [-Werror=int-to-pointer-cast]
>    20 |         if (!strcmp((char *)platform, (char *)base_platform))
>       |
> 
> [...]
Applied to perf-tools-next, thanks!

Best regards,
Namhyung




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