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    perf: Fix endianness argument compatibility with OPT_BOOLEAN() and introduce OPT_INCR() · c0555642
    Ian Munsie authored
    
    
    Parsing an option from the command line with OPT_BOOLEAN on a
    bool data type would not work on a big-endian machine due to the
    manner in which the boolean was being cast into an int and
    incremented. For example, running 'perf probe --list' on a
    PowerPC machine would fail to properly set the list_events bool
    and would therefore print out the usage information and
    terminate.
    
    This patch makes OPT_BOOLEAN work as expected with a bool
    datatype. For cases where the original OPT_BOOLEAN was
    intentionally being used to increment an int each time it was
    passed in on the command line, this patch introduces OPT_INCR
    with the old behaviour of OPT_BOOLEAN (the verbose variable is
    currently the only such example of this).
    
    I have reviewed every use of OPT_BOOLEAN to verify that a true
    C99 bool was passed. Where integers were used, I verified that
    they were only being used for boolean logic and changed them to
    bools to ensure that they would not be mistakenly used as ints.
    The major exception was the verbose variable which now uses
    OPT_INCR instead of OPT_BOOLEAN.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIan Munsie <imunsie@au.ibm.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
    Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # NOTE: wont apply to .3[34].x cleanly, please backport
    Cc: Git development list <git@vger.kernel.org>
    Cc: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
    Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
    Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
    Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
    Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
    Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
    Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
    Cc: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
    Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
    Cc: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
    Cc: Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com>
    Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
    Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
    Cc: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
    Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
    Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
    Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
    Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
    Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
    Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
    Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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