linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] perf: Make perf able to build with latest libbfd

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Date:   Fri, 1 May 2020 00:17:14 +0000
From:   Joel Stanley <joel@....id.au>
To:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@...il.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
        Changbin Du <changbin.du@...il.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf: Make perf able to build with latest libbfd

On Sun, 16 Feb 2020 at 23:25, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
>
> Hi Arnaldo,
>
> On Thu, 30 Jan 2020 11:55:48 +0100 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > Em Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 08:58:29AM +0100, Jiri Olsa escreveu:
> > > On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 11:29:38PM +0800, Changbin Du wrote:
> > > > libbfd has changed the bfd_section_* macros to inline functions
> > > > bfd_section_<field> since 2019-09-18. See below two commits:
> > > >   o http://www.sourceware.org/ml/gdb-cvs/2019-09/msg00064.html
> > > >   o https://www.sourceware.org/ml/gdb-cvs/2019-09/msg00072.html
> > > >
> > > > This fix make perf able to build with both old and new libbfd.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@...il.com>
> > >
> > > Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
> >
> > Thanks, applied.
>
> Just wondering if this should have been cc'd to stable?

Yes please. We hit this today.

Cheers,

Joel