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* [PATCH] perf build: Add warning for when vmlinux.h generation fails
@ 2023-03-22 18:31 Ian Rogers
  2023-03-22 19:50 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Ian Rogers @ 2023-03-22 18:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Peter Zijlstra, Ingo Molnar, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo,
	Mark Rutland, Alexander Shishkin, Jiri Olsa, Namhyung Kim,
	Adrian Hunter, linux-perf-users, linux-kernel, Stephen Rothwell
  Cc: Ian Rogers

The warning advises on the NO_BPF_SKEL=1 option.

Suggested-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
---
 tools/perf/Makefile.perf | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/Makefile.perf b/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
index ed6b6a070f79..48aba186ceb5 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
+++ b/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
@@ -1072,7 +1072,11 @@ VMLINUX_BTF ?= $(abspath $(firstword $(wildcard $(VMLINUX_BTF_PATHS))))
 
 $(SKEL_OUT)/vmlinux.h: $(VMLINUX_BTF) $(BPFTOOL)
 ifeq ($(VMLINUX_H),)
-	$(QUIET_GEN)$(BPFTOOL) btf dump file $< format c > $@
+	$(QUIET_GEN)$(BPFTOOL) btf dump file $< format c > $@ || \
+	(echo "Failure to generate vmlinux.h needed for the recommended BPF skeleton support." && \
+	echo "To disable this use the build option NO_BPF_SKEL=1." && \
+	echo "Alternatively point at a pre-generated vmlinux.h with VMLINUX_H=<path>." && \
+	false)
 else
 	$(Q)cp "$(VMLINUX_H)" $@
 endif
-- 
2.40.0.rc1.284.g88254d51c5-goog


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