linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v6 25/32] perf tools: Add 'bpf.' config section to perf default config

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Date:	Wed, 10 Jun 2015 08:47:24 +0800
From:	"Wangnan (F)" <wangnan0@...wei.com>
To:	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...mgrid.com>, <acme@...nel.org>,
	<brendan.d.gregg@...il.com>, <daniel@...earbox.net>,
	<namhyung@...nel.org>, <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>,
	<paulus@...ba.org>, <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>, <mingo@...hat.com>,
	<jolsa@...nel.org>, <dsahern@...il.com>
CC:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <lizefan@...wei.com>,
	<hekuang@...wei.com>, <xiakaixu@...wei.com>, <pi3orama@....com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v6 25/32] perf tools: Add 'bpf.' config section to
 perf default config



On 2015/6/10 7:43, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> On 6/8/15 10:50 PM, Wang Nan wrote:
>> perf_bpf_config() is added to parse 'bpf' section in perf config file.
>> Following is an example:
>>
>>   [bpf]
>>     clang-path = /llvm/bin/x86_64-linux-clang"
>>     llc-path = /llvm/bin/x86_64-linux-llc"
>>     clang-opt = "-nostdinc -isystem /llvm/lib/clang/include 
>> -I/kernel/arch/x86/include ..."
>>     llc-opt = ""
>
> a section to specify -I flags to compile prog.c is useful,
> but users shouldn't be populating it manually for kernel headers.
> How about adding a script that can figure out $(LINUXINCLUDE)
> automatically ?
> You can even invoke such flag detector from perf via something like:
> f = open /tmpdir/Makefile
> fprintf(f, "obj-y := dummy.o\n");
> fprintf(f, "$(obj)/%%.o: $(src)/%%.c\n");
> fprintf(f, "\t@...o -n \"$(NOSTDINC_FLAGS) $(LINUXINCLUDE) 
> $(EXTRA_CFLAGS)\" > %s\n", cachefile);
> snprintf(cmd, "make -s -C /lib/modules/%s/build M=%s dummy.o",
>    uts_release, tmpdir);
> system(cmd);
> read flags from cachefile and cache it for the future.
> ...
> or as independent script that populates .perfconfig
>

That's cool, but could I implement it later? Introducing such stuffs 
also introduces
a lot of trouble tasks:

1. Dependency on make and kernel build. We should search make and kbuild 
dir dynamically
    and also gives users the right to specify them by theirselves. A lot 
of configuration
    options should be appended: --make-path=/path/to/make 
--kbuild-dir=kernel/build/dir
    in cmdline and
    [kbuild]
       make_path = /path/to/make
       kbuild_dir = /path/to/kbuild
    in .perfconfig.

2. Selection of architectures. Although currently we want it to work 
only when we dynamically
    compile a script, I think finally we should consider cross compiling 
bpf objects. Then cmdline
    generation becomes complex. Also, --arch and [kbuild.arch] should 
also be introduced.

3. Kernel dependency. Consider if kernel decides to change its interface...

I think currently we can pop some messages to let user know how to get 
include dirs manually,
let further patches to do it for them automatically.

P.S.

Have you tested your Makefile? It doesn't work for me:

#  cat ./Makefile
obj-y := dummy.o

$(obj)/%.o: $(src)/%.c
     @echo -n "$(NOSTDINC_FLAGS) $(LINUXINCLUDE) $(EXTRA_CFLAGS)" > xxxx

# make -s -C kernel/build/dir M=`pwd` dummy.o
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `dummy.o'.  Stop.
make[1]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
make: *** [__sub-make] Error 2


Thank you.

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