kernel/linux.git/tools/lib/perf/Makefile, branch v6.12.80

libperf build: Always place libperf includes first

2026-03-04T12:20:50+00:00

[ Upstream commit 8c5b40678c63be6b85f1c2dc8c8b89d632faf988 ] When building tools/perf the CFLAGS can contain a directory for the installed headers. As the headers may be being installed while building libperf.a this can cause headers to be partially installed and found in the include path while building an object file for libperf.a. The installed header may reference other installed headers that are missing given the partial nature of the install and then the build fails with a missing header file. Avoid this by ensuring the libperf source headers are always first in the CFLAGS. Fixes: 3143504918105156 ("libperf: Make libperf.a part of the perf build") Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

libperf: Don't remove -g when EXTRA_CFLAGS are used

2026-03-04T12:20:50+00:00

[ Upstream commit f5b07010c13c77541e8ade167d05bef3b8a63739 ] When using EXTRA_CFLAGS, for example "EXTRA_CFLAGS=-DREFCNT_CHECKING=1", this construct stops setting -g which you'd expect would not be affected by adding extra flags. Additionally, EXTRA_CFLAGS should be the last thing to be appended so that it can be used to undo any defaults. And no condition is required, just += appends to any existing CFLAGS and also appends or doesn't append EXTRA_CFLAGS if they are or aren't set. It's not clear why DEBUG=1 is required for -g in Perf when in libperf it's always on, but I don't think we need to change that behavior now because someone may be depending on it. Signed-off-by: James Clark Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250319114009.417865-1-james.clark@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Stable-dep-of: 8c5b40678c63 ("libperf build: Always place libperf includes first") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

perf cpumap: Add reference count checking

2023-04-17T19:50:02+00:00

Enabled when REFCNT_CHECKING is defined. The change adds a memory allocated pointer that is interposed between the reference counted cpu map at a get and freed by a put. The pointer replaces the original perf_cpu_map struct, so use of the perf_cpu_map via APIs remains unchanged. Any use of the cpu map without the API requires two versions, handled via the RC_CHK_ACCESS macro. This change is intended to catch: - use after put: using a cpumap after you have put it will cause a segv. - unbalanced puts: two puts for a get will result in a double free that can be captured and reported by tools like address sanitizer, including with the associated stack traces of allocation and frees. - missing puts: if a put is missing then the get turns into a memory leak that can be reported by leak sanitizer, including the stack trace at the point the get occurs. Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Alexey Bayduraev Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Andy Shevchenko Cc: Darren Hart Cc: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: German Gomez Cc: Hao Luo Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: John Garry Cc: Kajol Jain Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Miaoqian Lin Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Riccardo Mancini Cc: Shunsuke Nakamura Cc: Song Liu Cc: Stephen Brennan Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Thomas Richter , Cc: Yury Norov Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230407230405.2931830-3-irogers@google.com [ Extracted from a larger patch ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

libperf: Fix install_pkgconfig target

2022-12-16T13:04:06+00:00

Commit 47e02b94a4c98dcc ("tools lib perf: Add dependency test to install_headers") misses the notion of $(DESTDIR_SQ) for install_pkgconfig target, which leads to error: install: cannot create regular file '/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libperf.pc': Permission denied make: *** [Makefile:210: install_pkgconfig] Error 1 Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Masahiro Yamada Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Nathan Chancellor Cc: Nick Desaulniers Cc: Nicolas Schier Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Tom Rix Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org Cc: llvm@lists.linux.dev Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Y5w/cWKyb8vpNMfA@li-4a3a4a4c-28e5-11b2-a85c-a8d192c6f089.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

tools lib perf: Add dependency test to install_headers

2022-12-14T14:16:12+00:00

Compute the headers to be installed from their source headers and make each have its own build target to install it. Using dependencies avoids headers being reinstalled and getting a new timestamp which then causes files that depend on the header to be rebuilt. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Masahiro Yamada Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Nathan Chancellor Cc: Nick Desaulniers Cc: Nicolas Schier Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Tom Rix Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org Cc: llvm@lists.linux.dev Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221202045743.2639466-3-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

tools lib perf: Make install_headers clearer

2022-11-20T14:32:23+00:00

Add libperf to the name so that this install_headers build appears different to similar targets in different libraries. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Andrii Nakryiko Cc: Daniel Borkmann Cc: Hao Luo Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: John Fastabend Cc: KP Singh Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Martin KaFai Lau Cc: Masahiro Yamada Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Nicolas Schier Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Song Liu Cc: Stanislav Fomichev Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Yonghong Song Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221117004356.279422-5-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

tools lib perf: Add missing install headers

2022-11-16T15:17:15+00:00

Headers necessary for the perf build. Note, internal headers are also installed as these are necessary for the build. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Andrii Nakryiko Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Masahiro Yamada Cc: Nick Desaulniers Cc: Nicolas Schier Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221109184914.1357295-9-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

kbuild: replace $(if A,A,B) with $(or A,B)

2022-02-15T03:25:56+00:00

$(or ...) is available since GNU Make 3.81, and useful to shorten the code in some places. Covert as follows: $(if A,A,B) --> $(or A,B) This patch also converts: $(if A, A, B) --> $(or A, B) Strictly speaking, the latter is not an equivalent conversion because GNU Make keeps spaces after commas; if A is not empty, $(if A, A, B) expands to " A", while $(or A, B) expands to "A". Anyway, preceding spaces are not significant in the code hunks I touched. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier

libperf: Change tests to single static and shared binaries

2021-07-07T14:41:58+00:00

Make tests to be two binaries 'tests_static' and 'tests_shared', so the maintenance is easier. Adding tests under libperf build system, so we define all the flags just once. Adding make-tests tule to just compile tests without running them. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Michael Petlan Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Shunsuke Nakamura Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210706151704.73662-2-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

libperf: Add man pages

2020-01-06T14:46:09+00:00

Change the man page generation to asciidoc, because it's easier to use and has been more commonly used in related projects. Remove the current rst pages. Add 3 man pages to have a base for more additions: libperf.3 - overall description libperf-counting.7 - counting basics explained on simple example libperf-sampling.7 - sampling basics explained on simple example The plan is to add more man pages to cover the basic API. The build generates html and man pages: $ cd tools/lib/perf/Documentation $ make ASCIIDOC libperf.xml XMLTO libperf.3 ASCIIDOC libperf-counting.xml XMLTO libperf-counting.7 ASCIIDOC libperf-sampling.xml XMLTO libperf-sampling.7 ASCIIDOC libperf.html ASCIIDOC libperf-counting.html ASCIIDOC libperf-sampling.html Add the following install targets: install-man - man pages install-html - html version of man pages install-examples - examples mentioned in the man pages Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Michael Petlan Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191206210612.8676-3-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo