linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] perf augmented_raw_syscalls: Document clang configuration

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Message-ID: <20190607143849.GI5970@leoy-ThinkPad-X240s>
Date:   Fri, 7 Jun 2019 22:38:49 +0800
From:   Leo Yan <leo.yan@...aro.org>
To:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@...il.com>
Cc:     Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
        Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>,
        Mike Leach <mike.leach@...aro.org>,
        Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        bpf@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] perf augmented_raw_syscalls: Document clang
 configuration

Hi Arnaldo,

On Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 03:29:41PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 10:35:32PM +0800, Leo Yan escreveu:
> > On Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 11:08:00AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > > Em Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 05:48:45PM +0800, Leo Yan escreveu:
> > > > To build this program successfully with clang, there have three
> > > > compiler options need to be specified:
> > > > 
> > > >   - Header file path: tools/perf/include/bpf;
> > > >   - Specify architecture;
> > > >   - Define macro __NR_CPUS__.
> > > 
> > > So, this shouldn't be needed, all of this is supposed to be done
> > > automagically, have you done a 'make -C tools/perf install'?
> > 
> > I missed the up operation.  But after git pulled the lastest code base
> > from perf/core branch and used the command 'make -C tools/perf
> > install', I still saw the eBPF build failure.
> > 
> > Just now this issue is fixed after I removed the config
> > 'clang-bpf-cmd-template' from ~/.perfconfig;  the reason is I followed
> > up the Documentation/perf-config.txt to set the config as below:
> > 
> >   clang-bpf-cmd-template = "$CLANG_EXEC -D__KERNEL__ $CLANG_OPTIONS \
> >                           $KERNEL_INC_OPTIONS -Wno-unused-value \
> >                           -Wno-pointer-sign -working-directory \
> >                           $WORKING_DIR -c $CLANG_SOURCE -target bpf \
> >                           -O2 -o -"
> > 
> > In fact, util/llvm-utils.c has updated the default configuration as
> > below:
> > 
> >   #define CLANG_BPF_CMD_DEFAULT_TEMPLATE                          \
> >                 "$CLANG_EXEC -D__KERNEL__ -D__NR_CPUS__=$NR_CPUS "\
> >                 "-DLINUX_VERSION_CODE=$LINUX_VERSION_CODE "     \
> >                 "$CLANG_OPTIONS $PERF_BPF_INC_OPTIONS $KERNEL_INC_OPTIONS " \
> >                 "-Wno-unused-value -Wno-pointer-sign "          \
> >                 "-working-directory $WORKING_DIR "              \
> >                 "-c \"$CLANG_SOURCE\" -target bpf $CLANG_EMIT_LLVM -O2 -o - $LLVM_OPTIONS_PIPE"
> > 
> > Maybe should update Documentation/perf-config.txt to tell users the
> > real default value of clang-bpf-cmd-template?
> 
> Sure, if you fell like doing this, please update and also please figure
> out when the this changed and add a Fixes: that cset,

Thanks for guidance.  Have sent patch for this [1].

> Its great that you're going thru the docs and making sure the
> differences are noted so that we update the docs, thanks a lot!

You are welcome!

Thanks,
Leo Yan

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/6/7/477