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Message-ID: <1256400636.3007.16.camel@newn>
Date:	Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:10:36 +0300
From:	Marti Raudsepp <marti@...fo.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@...il.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf tools: add compatibility with libelf 0.8 and
 autodetect

On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 17:41 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> The patch got whitespace damaged (tabs are spaces, etc.) - please see 
> Documentation/email-clients.txt.

Jeez, I spent most of my morning testing how to use different email
clients and I still can't get it right. :/

Marti

---
perf tools: add compatibility with libelf 0.8.x and autodetect

The Makefile now automatically defines LIBELF_NO_MMAP when libelf 0.8.x is
detected. libelf 0.8 is still maintained and some distributions such as
Arch Linux use it instead of elfutils.

Signed-off-by: Marti Raudsepp <marti@...fo.org>

diff --git a/tools/perf/Makefile b/tools/perf/Makefile
--- a/tools/perf/Makefile
+++ b/tools/perf/Makefile
@@ -422,7 +422,11 @@
 	PTHREAD_LIBS =
 endif
 
-ifneq ($(shell sh -c "(echo '\#include <libelf.h>'; echo 'int main(void) { Elf * elf = elf_begin(0, ELF_C_READ_MMAP, 0); return (long)elf; }') | $(CC) -x c - $(ALL_CFLAGS) -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -o /dev/null $(ALL_LDFLAGS) > /dev/null 2>&1 && echo y"), y)
+ifeq ($(shell sh -c "(echo '\#include <libelf.h>'; echo 'int main(void) { Elf * elf = elf_begin(0, ELF_C_READ, 0); return (long)elf; }') | $(CC) -x c - $(ALL_CFLAGS) -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -o /dev/null $(ALL_LDFLAGS) > /dev/null 2>&1 && echo y"), y)
+	ifneq ($(shell sh -c "(echo '\#include <libelf.h>'; echo 'int main(void) { Elf * elf = elf_begin(0, ELF_C_READ_MMAP, 0); return (long)elf; }') | $(CC) -x c - $(ALL_CFLAGS) -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -o /dev/null $(ALL_LDFLAGS) > /dev/null 2>&1 && echo y"), y)
+		BASIC_CFLAGS += -DLIBELF_NO_MMAP
+	endif
+else
 	msg := $(error No libelf.h/libelf found, please install libelf-dev/elfutils-libelf-devel and glibc-dev[el]);
 endif
 
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
--- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
@@ -413,7 +413,7 @@
 	if (fd < 0)
 		goto out;
 
-	elf = elf_begin(fd, ELF_C_READ_MMAP, NULL);
+	elf = elf_begin(fd, PERF_ELF_C_READ_MMAP, NULL);
 	if (elf == NULL)
 		goto out_close;
 
@@ -533,7 +533,7 @@
 	Elf *elf;
 	int nr = 0, kernel = !strcmp("[kernel]", self->name);
 
-	elf = elf_begin(fd, ELF_C_READ_MMAP, NULL);
+	elf = elf_begin(fd, PERF_ELF_C_READ_MMAP, NULL);
 	if (elf == NULL) {
 		if (v)
 			fprintf(stderr, "%s: cannot read %s ELF file.\n",
@@ -675,7 +675,7 @@
 	if (fd < 0)
 		goto out;
 
-	elf = elf_begin(fd, ELF_C_READ_MMAP, NULL);
+	elf = elf_begin(fd, PERF_ELF_C_READ_MMAP, NULL);
 	if (elf == NULL) {
 		if (v)
 			fprintf(stderr, "%s: cannot read %s ELF file.\n",
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.h b/tools/perf/util/symbol.h
--- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.h
@@ -27,6 +27,16 @@
 #endif
 #endif
 
+/*
+ * libelf 0.8.x and earlier do not support ELF_C_READ_MMAP; for newer versions
+ * we can use mmap to reduce memory usage
+ */
+#ifdef LIBELF_NO_MMAP
+# define PERF_ELF_C_READ_MMAP ELF_C_READ
+#else
+# define PERF_ELF_C_READ_MMAP ELF_C_READ_MMAP
+#endif
+
 #ifndef DMGL_PARAMS
 #define DMGL_PARAMS      (1 << 0)       /* Include function args */
 #define DMGL_ANSI        (1 << 1)       /* Include const, volatile, etc */


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