Linux kernel stable tree (mirror) https://git.radix-linux.su/kernel/linux.git/atom?h=v6.12.80 2019-08-12T20:14:14+00:00 2019-08-12T20:14:14+00:00 Igor Lubashev ilubashe@akamai.com 2019-08-07T14:44:14+00:00 urn:sha1:74d5f3d06f707eb5f7e1908ad88954bde02000ce Add utilities to help checking capabilities of the running procss. Make perf link with libcap, if it is available. If no libcap-dev[el], assume no capabilities. Committer testing: $ make O=/tmp/build/perf -C tools/perf install-bin make: Entering directory '/home/acme/git/perf/tools/perf' BUILD: Doing 'make -j8' parallel build Auto-detecting system features: <SNIP> ... libbfd: [ on ] ... libcap: [ OFF ] ... libelf: [ on ] <SNIP> Makefile.config:833: No libcap found, disables capability support, please install libcap-devel/libcap-dev <SNIP> $ grep libcap /tmp/build/perf/FEATURE-DUMP feature-libcap=0 $ cat /tmp/build/perf/feature/test-libcap.make.output test-libcap.c:2:10: fatal error: sys/capability.h: No such file or directory 2 | #include <sys/capability.h> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ compilation terminated. $ Now install libcap-devel and try again: $ make O=/tmp/build/perf -C tools/perf install-bin make: Entering directory '/home/acme/git/perf/tools/perf' BUILD: Doing 'make -j8' parallel build Warning: Kernel ABI header at 'tools/include/linux/bits.h' differs from latest version at 'include/linux/bits.h' diff -u tools/include/linux/bits.h include/linux/bits.h Warning: Kernel ABI header at 'tools/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h' differs from latest version at 'arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h' diff -u tools/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h Auto-detecting system features: <SNIP> ... libbfd: [ on ] ... libcap: [ on ] ... libelf: [ on ] <SNIP>> CC /tmp/build/perf/jvmti/libjvmti.o <SNIP>> $ grep libcap /tmp/build/perf/FEATURE-DUMP feature-libcap=1 $ cat /tmp/build/perf/feature/test-libcap.make.output $ ldd /tmp/build/perf/feature/test-libcap.make.bin ldd: /tmp/build/perf/feature/test-libcap.make.bin: No such file or directory $ ldd /tmp/build/perf/feature/test-libcap.bin linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffc35bfe000) libcap.so.2 => /lib64/libcap.so.2 (0x00007ff9c62ff000) libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007ff9c6139000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007ff9c6326000) $ Signed-off-by: Igor Lubashev <ilubashe@akamai.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Suzuki Poulouse <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> [ split from a larger patch ] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8a1e76cf5c7c9796d0d4d240fbaa85305298aafa.1565188228.git.ilubashe@akamai.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>