linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/1 fyi] tools headers UAPI: Sync linux/perf

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Date:   Mon, 6 Mar 2023 17:21:54 -0300
From:   arnaldo.melo@...il.com
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
        Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/1 fyi] tools headers UAPI: Sync linux/perf_event.h with the
 kernel sources

tldr; Just FYI, I'm carrying this on the perf tools tree.

- Arnaldo

Full explanation:

There used to be no copies, with tools/ code using kernel headers
directly. From time to time tools/perf/ broke due to legitimate kernel
hacking. At some point Linus complained about such direct usage. Then we
adopted the current model.

The way these headers are used in perf are not restricted to just
including them to compile something.

There are sometimes used in scripts that convert defines into string
tables, etc, so some change may break one of these scripts, or new MSRs
may use some different #define pattern, etc.

E.g.:

  $ ls -1 tools/perf/trace/beauty/*.sh | head -5
  tools/perf/trace/beauty/arch_errno_names.sh
  tools/perf/trace/beauty/drm_ioctl.sh
  tools/perf/trace/beauty/fadvise.sh
  tools/perf/trace/beauty/fsconfig.sh
  tools/perf/trace/beauty/fsmount.sh
  $
  $ tools/perf/trace/beauty/fadvise.sh
  static const char *fadvise_advices[] = {
  	[0] = "NORMAL",
  	[1] = "RANDOM",
  	[2] = "SEQUENTIAL",
  	[3] = "WILLNEED",
  	[4] = "DONTNEED",
  	[5] = "NOREUSE",
  };
  $

The tools/perf/check-headers.sh script, part of the tools/ build
process, points out changes in the original files.

So its important not to touch the copies in tools/ when doing changes in
the original kernel headers, that will be done later, when
check-headers.sh inform about the change to the perf tools hackers.

---

To pick up the changes in:

  09519ec3b19e4144 ("perf: Add perf_event_attr::config3")

The patches for the tooling side will come later.

This addresses this perf build warning:

  Warning: Kernel ABI header at 'tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h' differs from latest version at 'include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h'
  diff -u tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
---
 tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
index ccb7f5dad59be96b..37675437b76860ae 100644
--- a/tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -374,6 +374,7 @@ enum perf_event_read_format {
 #define PERF_ATTR_SIZE_VER5	112	/* add: aux_watermark */
 #define PERF_ATTR_SIZE_VER6	120	/* add: aux_sample_size */
 #define PERF_ATTR_SIZE_VER7	128	/* add: sig_data */
+#define PERF_ATTR_SIZE_VER8	136	/* add: config3 */

 /*
  * Hardware event_id to monitor via a performance monitoring event:
@@ -515,6 +516,8 @@ struct perf_event_attr {
 	 * truncated accordingly on 32 bit architectures.
 	 */
 	__u64	sig_data;
+
+	__u64	config3; /* extension of config2 */
 };

 /*
-- 
2.39.2