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Date:   Fri, 26 Oct 2018 00:30:08 -0700
From:   tip-bot for Hongxu Jia <tipbot@...or.com>
To:     linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
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Subject: [tip:perf/urgent] perf arm64: Fix generate system call table failed
 with /tmp mounted with noexec

Commit-ID:  389373d3306553896a9e218493e5b6175c844eb0
Gitweb:     https://git.kernel.org/tip/389373d3306553896a9e218493e5b6175c844eb0
Author:     Hongxu Jia <hongxu.jia@...driver.com>
AuthorDate: Thu, 18 Oct 2018 16:26:13 +0800
Committer:  Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
CommitDate: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 11:56:57 -0300

perf arm64: Fix generate system call table failed with /tmp mounted with noexec

When /tmp is mounted with noexec, mksyscalltbl fails.

  [snip]
  |perf-1.0/tools/perf/arch/arm64/entry/syscalls//mksyscalltbl:
  /tmp/create-table-6VGPSt: Permission denied
  [snip]

Add variable TMPDIR as prefix dir of the temporary file, if it is set,
replace default /tmp.

Signed-off-by: Hongxu Jia <hongxu.jia@...driver.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
Cc: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@....com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Sébastien Boisvert <sboisvert@...le.com>
Cc: Thomas Richter <tmricht@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Fixes: 2b5882435606 ("perf arm64: Generate system call table from asm/unistd.h")
LPU-Reference: 1539851173-14959-1-git-send-email-hongxu.jia@...driver.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-1qrgq840ci0c5cy4oww957ge@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
---
 tools/perf/arch/arm64/entry/syscalls/mksyscalltbl | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/arm64/entry/syscalls/mksyscalltbl b/tools/perf/arch/arm64/entry/syscalls/mksyscalltbl
index 2dbb8cade048..c88fd32563eb 100755
--- a/tools/perf/arch/arm64/entry/syscalls/mksyscalltbl
+++ b/tools/perf/arch/arm64/entry/syscalls/mksyscalltbl
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ create_table_from_c()
 {
 	local sc nr last_sc
 
-	create_table_exe=`mktemp /tmp/create-table-XXXXXX`
+	create_table_exe=`mktemp ${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/create-table-XXXXXX`
 
 	{