Re: [PATCH 2/3] perf build: Use libtraceevent from the system

Athira Rajeev
2022-12-13T09:53:48Z

> On 12-Dec-2022, at 7:21 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> Em Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 12:04:18PM +0530, Athira Rajeev escreveu:
>>
>>
>>> On 09-Dec-2022, at 4:02 AM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Em Thu, Dec 08, 2022 at 07:04:52PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
>>>> Em Thu, Dec 08, 2022 at 12:21:20PM +0530, Athira Rajeev escreveu:
>>>>>> On 07-Dec-2022, at 10:57 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> wrote:
>>>>>> Can you try again? tmp.perf/core? That "tmp." part means its a force
>>>>>> pushed branch, so I just force pushed with some arch specific fixes, now
>>>>>> I'm down to (removing the successful builds and unrelated failures, now
>>>>>> related to libbpf's F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC kaboom):
>>>>
>>>>> Ok Arnaldo, Sure, I will check with updated branch
>>>>
>>>>>> 5 7.38 fedora:34 : FAIL gcc version 11.3.1 20220421 (Red Hat 11.3.1-2) (GCC)
>>>>>> /git/perf-6.1.0-rc6/tools/perf/util/evsel.c: In function ‘evsel__rawptr’:
>>>>>> /git/perf-6.1.0-rc6/tools/perf/util/evsel.c:2787:36: error: ‘TEP_FIELD_IS_RELATIVE’ undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean ‘TEP_FIELD_IS_FLAG’?
>>>>>> 2787 | if (field->flags & TEP_FIELD_IS_RELATIVE)
>>>>>> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>>>> | TEP_FIELD_IS_FLAG
>>>>
>>>>> I observed same issue as updated here:
>>>>> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/10476A85-3F75-4C91-AB5B-E5B136F31297@linux.vnet.ibm.com/
>>>>
>>>>> Looks like TEP_FIELD_IS_RELATIVE is not defined in header file of the system installed version.
>>>>> whereas it is there in header file in tools/lib/traceevent
>>>>
>>>>> # grep TEP_FIELD_IS_RELATIVE /usr/include/traceevent/event-parse.h
>>>>> # grep TEP_FIELD_IS_RELATIVE ../lib/traceevent/event-parse.h
>>>>> TEP_FIELD_IS_RELATIVE = 256,
>>>>
>>>> Right, I had noticed that as well, so as a prep patch I'm adding the
>>>> patch below, before Ian's. Please check and provide an
>>>> Acked-by/Tested-by/Reviewed-by if possible.
>>>
>>> I ended up with the one below, _after_ Ian's patch as I had some trouble grafting
>>> it before and had already tested it this way multiple times, I'm pushing
>>> this to tmp/perf.core.
>>>
>>> - Arnaldo
>>
>>
>> Hi Arnaldo, Ian
>>
>> Thanks for the fixes.
>>
>> Since we changed “CONFIG_TRACEEVENT” to “CONFIG_LIBTRACEEVENT”,
>> below change is also needed in “arch/powerpc/util/Build”
>>
>> diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/Build b/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/Build
>> index 71e57f28abda..9889245c555c 100644
>> --- a/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/Build
>> +++ b/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/Build
>> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
>> perf-y += header.o
>> -perf-$(CONFIG_TRACEEVENT) += kvm-stat.o
>> +perf-$(CONFIG_LIBTRACEEVENT) += kvm-stat.o
>> perf-y += perf_regs.o
>> perf-y += mem-events.o
>> perf-y += sym-handling.o
>>
>> With this change, I could successfully compile in these environment:
>> - Without libtraceevent-devel installed
>> - With libtraceevent-devel installed
>> - With “make NO_LIBTRACEEVENT=1”
>>
>> With above change,
>> Acked-by: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> I did that and the same thing for other architectures, thanks for
> testing!
>
> I'll now give a try at implementing it without
> tools/build/feature/test-libtraceevent-tep_field_is_relative.c, using
> just the version of libtraceevent, as Ian suggested.
>
> It would be great if you could test it again then,
>

Sure Arnaldo, I will test with updated code.

Thanks
Athira

> Thanks,
>
> - Arnaldo
>
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/Build b/tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/Build
> index 88553c578ed7a1c4..78ef7115be3d91a7 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/Build
> +++ b/tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/Build
> @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ perf-y += machine.o
> perf-y += perf_regs.o
> perf-y += tsc.o
> perf-y += pmu.o
> -perf-$(CONFIG_TRACEEVENT) += kvm-stat.o
> +perf-$(CONFIG_LIBTRACEEVENT) += kvm-stat.o
> perf-$(CONFIG_DWARF) += dwarf-regs.o
> perf-$(CONFIG_LOCAL_LIBUNWIND) += unwind-libunwind.o
> perf-$(CONFIG_LIBDW_DWARF_UNWIND) += unwind-libdw.o
> diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/Build b/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/Build
> index 71e57f28abdac7e9..9889245c555c4cfb 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/Build
> +++ b/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/Build
> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
> perf-y += header.o
> -perf-$(CONFIG_TRACEEVENT) += kvm-stat.o
> +perf-$(CONFIG_LIBTRACEEVENT) += kvm-stat.o
> perf-y += perf_regs.o
> perf-y += mem-events.o
> perf-y += sym-handling.o
> diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/s390/util/Build b/tools/perf/arch/s390/util/Build
> index aa8a5f05c9cb4706..db68840869979f2c 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/arch/s390/util/Build
> +++ b/tools/perf/arch/s390/util/Build
> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
> perf-y += header.o
> -perf-$(CONFIG_TRACEEVENT) += kvm-stat.o
> +perf-$(CONFIG_LIBTRACEEVENT) += kvm-stat.o
> perf-y += perf_regs.o
>
> perf-$(CONFIG_DWARF) += dwarf-regs.o