linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] perf bench: Share 'start', 'end', 'runtime' global vars

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Date:   Tue, 03 Mar 2020 19:28:52 +0100
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@...il.com>
Cc:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@...il.com>,
        Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] perf bench: Share 'start', 'end', 'runtime' global vars

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@...il.com> writes:
>> > Don't we have header files for that?
>  
>> Sure, that was the laziest/quickest way to "fix" that, the other was to
>> stick a 'static' in front of it.
>  
>> I'll go see if pushing them to a header file will not clash with other
>> stuff.
>
> Better now? Had to prefix those, not to clash with local variables when
> adding it to bench/bench.h.

Yes.

> Looking at the patch more can be done to share those benchmark
> arguments, but this is the second minimal patch to get tools/perf to
> build with the latest gcc (the one in Fedora rawhide and some other
> distros).

Right, but yes there is definitely quite some overlap there.

Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>