With this function, other modules can basically check whether a file is
a legal perf data file by checking its first 8 bytes against all
possible perf magic numbers.
Change the function name from check_perf_magic to more meaningful
is_perf_magic as suggested by acme.
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1351569369-26732-7-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
return -1;
}
+bool is_perf_magic(u64 magic)
+{
+ if (!memcmp(&magic, __perf_magic1, sizeof(magic))
+ || magic == __perf_magic2
+ || magic == __perf_magic2_sw)
+ return true;
+
+ return false;
+}
+
static int check_magic_endian(u64 magic, uint64_t hdr_sz,
bool is_pipe, struct perf_header *ph)
{
int perf_event__process_build_id(struct perf_tool *tool,
union perf_event *event,
struct perf_session *session);
+bool is_perf_magic(u64 magic);
/*
* arch specific callback