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Message-ID: <CAP-5=fVE5eo9TSX3rrGb-=DETeYvXtG0AqhpGwjnP6nr8pKrqg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 6 Jan 2022 19:30:34 -0800
From:   Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
To:     Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com>
Cc:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>, bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Quentin Monnet <quentin@...valent.com>
Subject: Re: perf build broken seemingly due to libbpf changes, checking...

On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 2:04 PM Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 1:44 PM Andrii Nakryiko
> <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 1:42 PM Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 11:48 AM Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
> > > <acme@...nel.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Em Thu, Jan 06, 2022 at 04:44:14PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
> > > > > Em Thu, Jan 06, 2022 at 04:34:46PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
> > > > > > After merging torvalds/master to perf/urgent I'm getting this:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > util/bpf-event.c:25:21: error: no previous prototype for ‘btf__load_from_kernel_by_id’ [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
> > > > > >    25 | struct btf * __weak btf__load_from_kernel_by_id(__u32 id)
> > > > > >       |                     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > > > > > util/bpf-event.c:37:1: error: no previous prototype for ‘bpf_object__next_program’ [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
> > > > > >    37 | bpf_object__next_program(const struct bpf_object *obj, struct bpf_program *prev)
> > > > > >       | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > > > > > util/bpf-event.c:46:1: error: no previous prototype for ‘bpf_object__next_map’ [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
> > > > > >    46 | bpf_object__next_map(const struct bpf_object *obj, const struct bpf_map *prev)
> > > > > >       | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > > > > > util/bpf-event.c:55:1: error: no previous prototype for ‘btf__raw_data’ [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
> > > > > >    55 | btf__raw_data(const struct btf *btf_ro, __u32 *size)
> > > > > >       | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > > > > > cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
> > > > > > make[4]: *** [/var/home/acme/git/perf/tools/build/Makefile.build:96: /tmp/build/perf/util/bpf-event.o] Error 1
> > > > > > make[4]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> > > > > > util/bpf_counter.c: In function ‘bpf_target_prog_name’:
> > > > > > util/bpf_counter.c:82:15: error: implicit declaration of function ‘btf__load_from_kernel_by_id’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
> > > > > >    82 |         btf = btf__load_from_kernel_by_id(info_linear->info.btf_id);
> > > > > >       |               ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > > > > > util/bpf_counter.c:82:13: error: assignment to ‘struct btf *’ from ‘int’ makes pointer from integer without a cast [-Werror=int-conversion]
> > > > > >    82 |         btf = btf__load_from_kernel_by_id(info_linear->info.btf_id);
> > > > > >       |             ^
> > > > > > cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
> > > > > > make[4]: *** [/var/home/acme/git/perf/tools/build/Makefile.build:96: /tmp/build/perf/util/bpf_counter.o] Error 1
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'm checking now...
> > > > > >
> > > > > > BTW I test perf builds with:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > make -k BUILD_BPF_SKEL=1 CORESIGHT=1 PYTHON=python3 O=/tmp/build/perf -C tools/perf install-bin && git status && perf test python
> > > > >
> > > > > Nevermind, this was due to a patch by Ian Rogers I was testing,
> > > > > bisecting get up to the last patch, since I had merged torvalds/master
> > > > > today it got me to a wrong correlation, sorry for the disturbance.
> > > > >
> > > > > For reference, this is the patch:
> > > > >
> > > > > http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220106072627.476524-1-irogers@google.com
> > > >
> > > > Ian, I have libbpf-devel installed:
> > > >
> > > > ⬢[acme@...lbox perf]$ rpm -qa | grep libbpf
> > > > libbpf-0.4.0-1.fc34.x86_64
> > > > libbpf-devel-0.4.0-1.fc34.x86_64
> > > > ⬢[acme@...lbox perf]$
> > > >
> > > > But I'm not using LIBBPF_DYNAMIC=1, so you can't just give precedence to
> > > > system headers for all of the homies in tools/lib/.
> > > >
> > > > I bet that if I remove the libbpf-devel package it works, yeah, just
> > > > tested. So we need to make those overrides dependent on using
> > > > LIBBPF_DYNAMIC=1, LIBTRACEEVENT_DYNAMIC=1, etc and avoid the big hammer
> > > > that is -Itools/lib/, using a more finegrained approach, right?
> > >
> > > Ugh, this is messy. The -I for tools/lib is overloaded and being used
> > > in tools/perf/util/bpf-event.c so that bpf/bpf.h, bpf/btf.h and
> >
> > can you do `make install` for libbpf instead and have it install
> > headers into a dedicated target directory which can be added into -I
> > search path. Quentin did this for all the other libbpf users in kernel
> > tree (bpftool, resolve_btfids, etc) and it works great.
>
> This sounds good to me, and being able to borrow code from bpftool
> should make writing it is straightforward. I'll try to find time to do
> a patch, but I don't mind someone getting there before me :-)

So tools/lib also provides subcmd, symbol and api. These will need
Makefiles to allow an install and likely the header file structure
altering. This seems like too big a fix for the next 5.16rc, wdyt?

Thanks,
Ian

> > > bpf/libbpf.h can be found. Likewise, for tools/perf/util/debug.c it is
> > > used to pick up traceevent/event-parse.h.
> > >
> > > Assuming  LIBBPF_DYNAMIC=1 and LIBTRACEEVENT_DYNAMIC=1 then we get
> > > different combinations of:
> > > libtraceevent >= 1.3 && libbpf >= 0.6 - -I is broken for debug.c,
> > > -idirafter okay
> > > libtraceevent >= 1.3 && libbpf < 0.6 - -I is broken for debug.c,
> > > -idirafter broken for bpf-event.c
> > > libtraceevent < 1.3 && libbpf >= 0.6 - -I should build okay but
> > > headers mismatched, -idirafter okay
> > > libtraceevent < 1.3 && libbpf < 0.6 - -I will fail to link
> > > bpf-event.c, -idirafter broken for bpf-event.c
> > >
> > > As the choice of -I and -idirafter are binary then there will always
> > > be a way to break the build. We could modify the build so that the
> > > -I/-idirafter only applies to the affected C files. This postpones the
> > > problem to when libbpf and libtracevent are in the same file, which
> > > doesn't happen currently. I think if you want the dynamic behavior
> > > then you need to use idirafter.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Ian