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From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
To: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>,
	Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
	Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org,
	bpf@vger.kernel.org, Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
	Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 08/14] tools lib perf: Add missing install headers
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2022 14:35:42 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y202br0IHVj9SDJ+@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM9d7cgpcVcUZo6ExLWis2Pu4V0FXdsNx+ZoKUWrOYqgqyZTiQ@mail.gmail.com>

Em Wed, Nov 09, 2022 at 12:12:16PM -0800, Namhyung Kim escreveu:
> On Wed, Nov 9, 2022 at 10:50 AM Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> wrote:
> > Headers necessary for the perf build. Note, internal headers are also
> > installed as these are necessary for the build.
 
> Yeah, it's sad we are using those internal headers in perf.

The plan is for perf to eventually be a libperf tool, but what was done
so far was make available classes and methods that were asked for by
libperf users.

Completely untangling tools/perf/ from those internal bits will needs
lots more work, so doing it the way Ian is doing now seems ok.

- Arnaldo

> Ideally libperf provides callbacks to associate private data
> to each public data structure (e.g. evsel, evlist, etc).  And
> external users just use public APIs only.
> 
> But that would be a major change.

  reply	other threads:[~2022-11-10 17:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-09 18:49 [PATCH v2 00/14] Fix perf tools/lib includes Ian Rogers
2022-11-09 18:49 ` [PATCH v2 01/14] tools lib api: Add install target Ian Rogers
2022-11-09 18:49 ` [PATCH v2 02/14] tools lib subcmd: " Ian Rogers
2022-11-09 18:49 ` [PATCH v2 03/14] perf build: Install libsubcmd locally when building Ian Rogers
2022-11-09 18:49 ` [PATCH v2 04/14] perf build: Install libapi " Ian Rogers
2022-11-09 18:49 ` [PATCH v2 05/14] perf build: Install libperf " Ian Rogers
2022-11-09 18:49 ` [PATCH v2 06/14] perf build: Install libtraceevent " Ian Rogers
2022-11-09 18:49 ` [PATCH v2 07/14] tools lib api: Add missing install headers Ian Rogers
2022-11-09 18:49 ` [PATCH v2 08/14] tools lib perf: " Ian Rogers
2022-11-09 20:12   ` Namhyung Kim
2022-11-10 17:35     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
2022-11-10 18:08       ` Namhyung Kim
2022-11-09 18:49 ` [PATCH v2 09/14] tool lib symbol: Add Makefile/Build Ian Rogers
2022-11-09 18:49 ` [PATCH v2 10/14] perf build: Install libsymbol locally when building Ian Rogers
2022-11-09 18:49 ` [PATCH v2 11/14] perf expr: Tidy hashmap dependency Ian Rogers
2022-11-09 18:49 ` [PATCH v2 12/14] perf thread_map: Reduce exposure of libperf internal API Ian Rogers
2022-11-09 18:49 ` [PATCH v2 13/14] perf cpumap: Tidy libperf includes Ian Rogers
2022-11-09 18:49 ` [PATCH v2 14/14] perf build: Use tools/lib headers from install path Ian Rogers
2022-11-10 18:10 ` [PATCH v2 00/14] Fix perf tools/lib includes Namhyung Kim
2022-11-14 20:16   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2022-11-14 20:18     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

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