perf session: Add byte-swap handler for PERF_RECORD_COMPRESSED2

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PERF_RECORD_COMPRESSED2 events carry a data_size field that must be
byte-swapped when reading cross-endian perf.data files.  Without a
swap handler, reading COMPRESSED2 events on a different-endian machine
would misinterpret data_size as a garbage value, causing the
decompression path to read the wrong number of bytes.

The compressed payload itself is a raw byte stream and needs no
swapping.

Fixes: 208c0e1683 ("perf record: Add 8-byte aligned event type PERF_RECORD_COMPRESSED2")
Reported-by: sashiko-bot@kernel.org # Running on a local machine
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Chun-Tse Shao <ctshao@google.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4.6-1m
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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