From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Sasha Levin" <sashal@kernel.org>,
"Shuah Khan" <shuah@kernel.org>,
linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
"Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@infradead.org>,
"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@redhat.com>,
"Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo" <acme@kernel.org>,
"Namhyung Kim" <namhyung@kernel.org>,
"Mark Rutland" <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
"Alexander Shishkin" <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
"Jiri Olsa" <jolsa@kernel.org>, "Ian Rogers" <irogers@google.com>,
"Adrian Hunter" <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
"James Clark" <james.clark@linaro.org>,
linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org,
"Thomas Weißschuh" <linux@weissschuh.net>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH v2 4/7] tools: build perf in tools_build
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2026 10:31:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261016143143.3613501-5-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261016143143.3613501-1-sashal@kernel.org>
Add CONFIG_TOOLS_BUILD_PERF. perf is built as it is built standalone,
with optional features enabled when their libraries are installed, and
with perf's WERROR setting following CONFIG_WERROR. The feature table is
left out of the kernel build log.
CONFIG_TOOLS_BUILD_PERF_MINIMAL builds it with MINIMAL=1 instead, which
turns every optional feature off, so the result does not depend on the
build machine. allmodconfig and allyesconfig turn it on.
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
tools/Kconfig | 16 ++++++++++++++++
tools/Makefile.kbuild | 10 ++++++++++
2 files changed, 26 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/Kconfig b/tools/Kconfig
index 2d05c8e593e21..4f13e3b104377 100644
--- a/tools/Kconfig
+++ b/tools/Kconfig
@@ -60,6 +60,22 @@ config TOOLS_BUILD_IIO
help
Build tools/iio (lsiio, iio_event_monitor, iio_generic_buffer).
+config TOOLS_BUILD_PERF
+ bool "perf"
+ help
+ Build tools/perf. As in a standalone perf build, optional
+ features are enabled when the libraries they need are installed.
+
+config TOOLS_BUILD_PERF_MINIMAL
+ bool "Build perf with all optional features disabled"
+ depends on TOOLS_BUILD_PERF
+ help
+ Build perf with MINIMAL=1, which turns off every optional
+ feature, so that the result does not depend on which libraries
+ the build machine has installed. allmodconfig and allyesconfig
+ turn this on, which keeps their builds the same on every
+ machine.
+
config TOOLS_BUILD_SPI
bool "SPI tools"
help
diff --git a/tools/Makefile.kbuild b/tools/Makefile.kbuild
index 8cfa7f80039cd..4b3ea73bc8ab9 100644
--- a/tools/Makefile.kbuild
+++ b/tools/Makefile.kbuild
@@ -79,6 +79,16 @@ PHONY += $(tool-targets)
$(tool-targets): tool-%: FORCE
$(call build,$(outdir)/$*,-C $(toolsdir)/$* O=$(outdir)/$* CC='$(call escsq,$(tools-cc))',,TOOLS_BUILD_$(shell echo $* | tr a-z A-Z))
+# perf, without the feature table in the kernel build log
+perf-flags := CC='$(call escsq,$(tools-cc))' FEATURE_DISPLAY= WERROR=$(if $(CONFIG_WERROR),1,0)
+perf-flags-$(CONFIG_TOOLS_BUILD_PERF_MINIMAL) += MINIMAL=1
+
+__tools_build: $(if $(CONFIG_TOOLS_BUILD_PERF),perf)
+
+PHONY += perf
+perf: FORCE
+ $(call build,$(outdir)/perf,-C $(toolsdir)/perf -f Makefile.perf O=$(outdir)/perf $(perf-flags) $(perf-flags-y),,TOOLS_BUILD_PERF)
+
PHONY += FORCE
FORCE:
--
2.53.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-16 14:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-16 14:31 [RFC PATCH v2 0/7] kbuild: build the userspace tools in tools/ with the kernel Sasha Levin
2026-10-16 14:31 ` [RFC PATCH v2 1/7] kbuild: factor the userspace ABI flags out into KBUILD_USERABI Sasha Levin
2026-10-16 14:31 ` [RFC PATCH v2 2/7] kbuild: add "make tools_build" to build userspace tools from tools/ Sasha Levin
2026-10-16 14:31 ` [RFC PATCH v2 3/7] perf build: Add MINIMAL=1 to build without optional features Sasha Levin
2026-10-16 15:41 ` Ian Rogers
2026-10-16 14:31 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2026-10-16 14:31 ` [RFC PATCH v2 5/7] tools: build kernel selftests in tools_build Sasha Levin
2026-10-16 16:17 ` Shuah Khan
2026-10-16 14:31 ` [RFC PATCH v2 6/7] kbuild: build the tools selected in tools/Kconfig as part of "make all" Sasha Levin
2026-10-16 14:31 ` [RFC PATCH v2 7/7] Documentation: describe building tools with the kernel Sasha Levin
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