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Message-ID: <874nw6xiqn.fsf@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 01:27:12 +0900
From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...il.com>
To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][trace-cmd] blk plugin: replace BLK_TC_BARRIER with BLK_TC_FLUSH/BLK_TC_FUA
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> The BLK_TC_BARRIER flag was dropped in Linux commit c09c47caedc in
> August 2011. The blk plugin fails to build against recent kernel
> headers. Since no flag bits were left, the new BLK_TC_FLUSH flag reused
> the BLK_TC_BARRIER bit. The new BLK_TC_FUA flag was also added.
>
> This patch updates fill_rwbs() to reflect the new
> BLK_TC_FLUSH/BLK_TC_FUA flags. This allows plugin_blk.c to build
> successfully on recent kernels. The drawback is that this breaks the
> build for pre-c09c47caedc kernel headers.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
> There is an alternative version of this patch with a build test in the Makefile
> so that we know whether to use BLK_TC_BARRIER or BLK_TC_FLUSH/BLK_TC_FUA. That
> would support both old and new kernel headers using a HAVE_BLK_TC_FLUSH #ifdef.
>
> I wasn't able to find the right makefile shell escaping magic to get the
> build-test function to work. If anyone knows how to test a snippet like the
> following, then that would be nicer:
>
> #include <linux/blktrace_api.h>
> int main(void) { return BLK_TC_FLUSH; }
>
Hi,
The perf uses following code for that:
# try-cc
# Usage: option = $(call try-cc, source-to-build, cc-options)
try-cc = $(shell sh -c \
'TMP="$(OUTPUT)$(TMPOUT).$$$$"; \
echo "$(1)" | \
$(CC) -x c - $(2) -o "$$TMP" > /dev/null 2>&1 && echo y; \
rm -f "$$TMP"')
Thanks,
Namhyung Kim
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