Patch "perf scripting perl: Fix compile error with some perl5 versions" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

Patch "perf scripting perl: Fix compile error with some perl5 versions" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    perf scripting perl: Fix compile error with some perl5 versions

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     perf-scripting-perl-fix-compile-error-with-some-perl5-versions.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From d7dd112ea5cacf91ae72c0714c3b911eb6016fea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wang YanQing <udknight@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2017 10:46:55 +0800
Subject: perf scripting perl: Fix compile error with some perl5 versions

From: Wang YanQing <udknight@gmail.com>

commit d7dd112ea5cacf91ae72c0714c3b911eb6016fea upstream.

Fix below compile error:

  CC       util/scripting-engines/trace-event-perl.o
  In file included from /usr/lib/perl5/5.22.2/i686-linux/CORE/perl.h:5673:0,
                   from util/scripting-engines/trace-event-perl.c:31:
  /usr/lib/perl5/5.22.2/i686-linux/CORE/inline.h: In function 'S__is_utf8_char_slow':
  /usr/lib/perl5/5.22.2/i686-linux/CORE/inline.h:270:5: error: nested extern declaration of 'Perl___notused' [-Werror=nested-externs]
          dTHX;   /* The function called below requires thread context */
			     ^
  cc1: all warnings being treated as errors

After digging perl5 repository, I find out that we will meet this
compile error with perl from v5.21.1 to v5.25.4

Signed-off-by: Wang YanQing <udknight@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170212024655.GA15997@udknight
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 tools/perf/util/scripting-engines/Build |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/tools/perf/util/scripting-engines/Build
+++ b/tools/perf/util/scripting-engines/Build
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 libperf-$(CONFIG_LIBPERL)   += trace-event-perl.o
 libperf-$(CONFIG_LIBPYTHON) += trace-event-python.o
 
-CFLAGS_trace-event-perl.o += $(PERL_EMBED_CCOPTS) -Wno-redundant-decls -Wno-strict-prototypes -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-shadow -Wno-undef -Wno-switch-default
+CFLAGS_trace-event-perl.o += $(PERL_EMBED_CCOPTS) -Wno-redundant-decls -Wno-strict-prototypes -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-shadow -Wno-nested-externs -Wno-undef -Wno-switch-default
 
 CFLAGS_trace-event-python.o += $(PYTHON_EMBED_CCOPTS) -Wno-redundant-decls -Wno-strict-prototypes -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-shadow


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from udknight@gmail.com are

queue-4.9/perf-scripting-perl-fix-compile-error-with-some-perl5-versions.patch