Re: [PATCH 4.19.y only 0/2] Fix perf build failures

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 10:27:43AM +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> Hi Greg, Sasha and all,
> 
> This is a resubmit of the patches already done in 
> https://lore.kernel.org/stable/20201125201215.26455-1-carnil@debian.org/
> and
> https://lore.kernel.org/stable/20201125201215.26455-2-carnil@debian.org/
> 
> The issue can be explained as this. In
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/stable/20201014135627.GA3698844@kroah.com/
> 
> on request 168200b6d6ea ("perf cs-etm: Move definition of 'traceid_list' global
> variable from header file") was queued back to 4.19.y to fix build failures for
> perf with more recent GCCs.
> 
> But for 4.19.y this was wrong because it missed to pick as well a dependency
> needed, and in turn it caused build failures with older GCC (8.3.0 as used in
> Debian stable in that case).
> 
> The commit was reverted in a later in 4.19.159.
> 
> It as though requested to try to allow as well compilation with more recent
> GCCs (while obviously not breaking older GCC builds) and found that the cause
> was just the missing dependency to pick up, namely pick 95c6fe970a01 ("perf
> cs-etm: Change tuple from traceID-CPU# to traceID-metadata") before
> 168200b6d6ea ("perf cs-etm: Move definition of 'traceid_list' global variable
> from header file").

Thanks for these, both now queued up.

greg k-h