linux.git/tools/build, branch v6.18.21

perf build: Don't fail fast path feature detection when binutils-devel is not available

2025-11-13T20:16:34+00:00

This is one more remnant of the BUILD_NONDISTRO series to make building
with binutils-devel opt-in due to license incompatibility.

In this case just the references at link time were still in place, which
make building the test-all.bin file fail, which wasn't detected before
probably because the last test was done with binutils-devel available,
doh.

Now:

  $ rpm -q binutils-devel
  package binutils-devel is not installed
  $ file /tmp/build/perf-tools/feature/test-all.bin
  /tmp/build/perf-tools/feature/test-all.bin: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV),
  dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2,
  BuildID[sha1]=4b5388a346b51f1b993f0b0dbd49f4570769b03c, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, not stripped
  $

Fixes: 970ae86307718c34 ("perf build: The bfd features are opt-in, stop testing for them by default")
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: James Clark 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf build: Correct CROSS_ARCH for clang

2025-10-06T19:49:25+00:00

Clang's -dumpmachine outputs "aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu", which does not
match the MultiArch convention. This prevents the build system from
detecting installed packages.

Fix by stripping the trailing '-' from CROSS_COMPILE when setting
CROSS_ARCH.

Signed-off-by: Leo Yan 
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251006-perf_build_android_ndk-v3-3-4305590795b2@arm.com
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt 
Cc: Albert Ou 
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti 
Cc: Nick Desaulniers 
Cc: Justin Stitt 
Cc: Bill Wendling 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Nathan Chancellor 
Cc: James Clark 
Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
Cc: llvm@lists.linux.dev
Cc: Paul Walmsley 
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

tools build: Align warning options with perf

2025-10-06T19:49:24+00:00

The feature test programs are built without enabling '-Wall -Werror'
options. As a result, a feature may appear to be available, but later
building in perf can fail with stricter checks.

Make the feature test program use the same warning options as perf.

Fixes: 1925459b4d92 ("tools build: Fix feature Makefile issues with 'O='")
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan 
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251006-perf_build_android_ndk-v3-1-4305590795b2@arm.com
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt 
Cc: Albert Ou 
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti 
Cc: Nick Desaulniers 
Cc: Justin Stitt 
Cc: Bill Wendling 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Nathan Chancellor 
Cc: James Clark 
Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
Cc: llvm@lists.linux.dev
Cc: Paul Walmsley 
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

tools build: Remove libbpf-strings feature test

2025-10-03T19:49:51+00:00

The feature test is unnecessary as the LIBBPF_CURRENT_VERSION_GEQ(1,7)
macro can be used instead. The only use was in perf and this is now
removed.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Blake Jones 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

tools build: Remove feature-libslang-include-subdir

2025-10-03T19:49:51+00:00

Added in commit cbefd24f0aee3a5d ("tools build: Add test to check if
slang.h is in /usr/include/slang/") this feature was to fix build
support on now unsupported versions of RHEL 5 and 6. As 6 years has
passed let's remove the workaround.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

tools build: Remove get_current_dir_name feature check

2025-10-03T19:49:11+00:00

As perf no longer tests for this feature, and it was the only user,
remove the feature test.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
[ Remove the call to main_test_get_current_dir_name() from main() in test-all.c, otherwise it will always fail ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

tools build: Don't assume libtracefs-devel is always available

2025-10-02T16:11:27+00:00

perf doesn't use libtracefs and so it doesn't make sense to assume it is
always available when building test-all.bin, defeating the feature check
speedup it provides.

The other tools/build/ users such as rtla, rv, etc call $(feature_check
libtracefs) to check its availability instead of using the test-all.bin
mechanism, stopping the build and asking for libtracefs-devel to be
installed.

Remove it from FEATURE_TESTS_BASIC to not have it as available, as noted
by Ian Rogers during review.

Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers 
Acked-by: Tomas Glozar 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Gabriele Monaco 
Cc: James Clark 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Kan Liang 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

tools build: Make libperl opt-in rather than opt-out, deprecate

2025-09-19T19:07:21+00:00

If libperl is installed then the perf tool build will build against
it. There appears to be limited interest in the scripting support for
perl so let's make it opt-in and deprecate it.

With this patch applied you need to add LIBPERL=1 to get libperl
support in perf - there is no warning if libperl is missing, but
building will fail if libperl is missing and the build has LIBPERL=1.
The perf version output is changed to:
```
$ perf version --build-options
perf version 6.17.rc3.g8eca69269947
                   aio: [ on  ]  # HAVE_AIO_SUPPORT
                   bpf: [ on  ]  # HAVE_LIBBPF_SUPPORT
         bpf_skeletons: [ on  ]  # HAVE_BPF_SKEL
            debuginfod: [ on  ]  # HAVE_DEBUGINFOD_SUPPORT
                 dwarf: [ on  ]  # HAVE_LIBDW_SUPPORT
    dwarf_getlocations: [ on  ]  # HAVE_LIBDW_SUPPORT
          dwarf-unwind: [ on  ]  # HAVE_DWARF_UNWIND_SUPPORT
              auxtrace: [ on  ]  # HAVE_AUXTRACE_SUPPORT
                libbfd: [ OFF ]  # HAVE_LIBBFD_SUPPORT ( tip: Deprecated, license incompatibility, use BUILD_NONDISTRO=1 and install binutils-dev[el] )
        libbpf-strings: [ on  ]  # HAVE_LIBBPF_STRINGS_SUPPORT
           libcapstone: [ on  ]  # HAVE_LIBCAPSTONE_SUPPORT
    libdw-dwarf-unwind: [ on  ]  # HAVE_LIBDW_SUPPORT
                libelf: [ on  ]  # HAVE_LIBELF_SUPPORT
               libnuma: [ on  ]  # HAVE_LIBNUMA_SUPPORT
            libopencsd: [ OFF ]  # HAVE_CSTRACE_SUPPORT
               libperl: [ OFF ]  # HAVE_LIBPERL_SUPPORT ( tip:
Deprecated, use LIBPERL=1 and install libperl-dev to build with it )
               libpfm4: [ on  ]  # HAVE_LIBPFM
             libpython: [ on  ]  # HAVE_LIBPYTHON_SUPPORT
              libslang: [ on  ]  # HAVE_SLANG_SUPPORT
         libtraceevent: [ on  ]  # HAVE_LIBTRACEEVENT
             libunwind: [ OFF ]  # HAVE_LIBUNWIND_SUPPORT ( tip:
Deprecated, use LIBUNWIND=1 and install libunwind-dev[el] to build
with it )
                  lzma: [ on  ]  # HAVE_LZMA_SUPPORT
numa_num_possible_cpus: [ on  ]  # HAVE_LIBNUMA_SUPPORT
                  zlib: [ on  ]  # HAVE_ZLIB_SUPPORT
                  zstd: [ on  ]  # HAVE_ZSTD_SUPPORT
```

i.e. there is a tip saying about deprecation and how to get support
back.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers 
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Charlie Jenkins 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: James Clark 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Kan Liang 
Cc: Leo Yan 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Michael Petlan 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Quentin Monnet 
Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) 
Cc: Tomas Glozar 
Cc: Yuzhuo Jing 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/aMrk03gigBlGcYLK@x1/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAP-5=fVX+bLBRJCiziDi_hBySgv2NFtDoghtpheSSxVAvvETGw@mail.gmail.com
[ Keep the pre-existing perl-ExtUtils-Embed hint for Fedora/RHEL systems ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

tools: Remove libcrypto dependency

2025-06-26T17:51:41+00:00

Remove all occurrence of libcrypto in the build system.

Signed-off-by: Yuzhuo Jing 
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers 
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250625202311.23244-5-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf build: The bfd features are opt-in, stop testing for them by default

2025-06-24T17:27:50+00:00

These are leftovers noticed while updating a build container.

We don't need those so that test-all.c can build and thus speed up the
feature detection.

Test for those features only if the user asks for BUILD_NONDISTRO=1 to
build with libbfd.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Reviewed-by: James Clark 
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250620212435.93846-4-acme@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim