From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
To: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Chen Pei <cp0613@linux.alibaba.com>,
peterz@infradead.org, mingo@redhat.com, namhyung@kernel.org,
mark.rutland@arm.com, alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com,
jolsa@kernel.org, adrian.hunter@intel.com,
james.clark@linaro.org, pjw@kernel.org, palmer@dabbelt.com,
aou@eecs.berkeley.edu, alex@ghiti.fr, guoren@kernel.org,
linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org,
linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf riscv: Add perf_regs_load and enable the dwarf unwind test
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2026 14:40:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <arJ3UM-td4trU4z5@x2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP-5=fWE7gjkpZdnHh_QAiVBKTF=1tsUE+ezDxW8SaCsaS-s5w@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Sep 15, 2026 at 12:09:13PM -0700, Ian Rogers wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2026 at 6:54 PM Chen Pei <cp0613@linux.alibaba.com> wrote:
> >
> > Both items checked. Neither needs a v2 of this patch.
> >
> > > Does this file need to explicitly include <stdlib.h>? Since musl libc
> > > enforces strict POSIX header inclusions, missing the declaration for
> > > malloc could lead to a build failure regression on musl libc systems.
> >
> > It is not missing. "perf_regs.h" three lines above resolves to
> > arch/riscv/include/perf_regs.h, which has #include <stdlib.h> and is
> > also where PERF_REGS_MAX comes from, so this file cannot be built
> > without it. arm64 relies on the same transitive include. Checked with
> > riscv64 gcc 15.3, where an implicit declaration is a hard error:
> > including only that header is enough to call malloc() and calloc().
>
> Hi Pei,
>
> Thanks for the patch! Please don't rely on transitive includes as a
> change in the other header file will break code here. Since this code
> only builds for RISC-V, we're likely to miss the problem if the other
> header changes. Other than this,
>
> Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Thanks, applied to perf-tools-next, for v7.4.
- Arnaldo
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From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
To: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Chen Pei <cp0613@linux.alibaba.com>,
peterz@infradead.org, mingo@redhat.com, namhyung@kernel.org,
mark.rutland@arm.com, alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com,
jolsa@kernel.org, adrian.hunter@intel.com,
james.clark@linaro.org, pjw@kernel.org, palmer@dabbelt.com,
aou@eecs.berkeley.edu, alex@ghiti.fr, guoren@kernel.org,
linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org,
linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf riscv: Add perf_regs_load and enable the dwarf unwind test
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2026 14:40:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <arJ3UM-td4trU4z5@x2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP-5=fWE7gjkpZdnHh_QAiVBKTF=1tsUE+ezDxW8SaCsaS-s5w@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Sep 15, 2026 at 12:09:13PM -0700, Ian Rogers wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2026 at 6:54 PM Chen Pei <cp0613@linux.alibaba.com> wrote:
> >
> > Both items checked. Neither needs a v2 of this patch.
> >
> > > Does this file need to explicitly include <stdlib.h>? Since musl libc
> > > enforces strict POSIX header inclusions, missing the declaration for
> > > malloc could lead to a build failure regression on musl libc systems.
> >
> > It is not missing. "perf_regs.h" three lines above resolves to
> > arch/riscv/include/perf_regs.h, which has #include <stdlib.h> and is
> > also where PERF_REGS_MAX comes from, so this file cannot be built
> > without it. arm64 relies on the same transitive include. Checked with
> > riscv64 gcc 15.3, where an implicit declaration is a hard error:
> > including only that header is enough to call malloc() and calloc().
>
> Hi Pei,
>
> Thanks for the patch! Please don't rely on transitive includes as a
> change in the other header file will break code here. Since this code
> only builds for RISC-V, we're likely to miss the problem if the other
> header changes. Other than this,
>
> Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Thanks, applied to perf-tools-next, for v7.4.
- Arnaldo
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-22 12:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-14 12:41 [PATCH] perf riscv: Add perf_regs_load and enable the dwarf unwind test Chen Pei
2026-09-14 12:41 ` Chen Pei
2026-09-14 12:58 ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-15 1:54 ` Chen Pei
2026-09-15 1:54 ` Chen Pei
2026-09-15 19:09 ` Ian Rogers
2026-09-15 19:09 ` Ian Rogers
2026-09-22 12:40 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
2026-09-22 12:40 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
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