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Message-ID: <YvKvzkuUG78q/mkA@kernel.org>
Date:   Tue, 9 Aug 2022 16:04:46 -0300
From:   Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
To:     Andres Freund <andres@...razel.de>
Cc:     Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@...wei.com>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>, quentin@...valent.com,
        ast@...nel.org, andrii@...nel.org, martin.lau@...ux.dev,
        song@...nel.org, john.fastabend@...il.com, kpsingh@...nel.org,
        sdf@...gle.com, peterz@...radead.org, mingo@...hat.com,
        terrelln@...com, nathan@...nel.org, ndesaulniers@...gle.com,
        bpf@...r.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org,
        llvm@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] build: Switch to new openssl API for test-libcrypto

Em Tue, Aug 09, 2022 at 10:00:34AM -0700, Andres Freund escreveu:
> Hi,
> 
> On 2022-08-09 12:21:15 -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > So I backtracked, the way it works needs further consideration with
> > regard to the patchkit from Andres, that is already upstream, so it
> > would be good for Roberto to take a look at what is in torvalds/master
> > now and see if we have to removed that styled thing from Andres.
> 
> Why would it have to be removed - seems to be fairly independent, leaving the
> line conflicts aside? Or do you just mean folding it into one-big-test? If so,
> that'd make sense, although I'm not sure how ready the infrastructure

So below is the 3rd patch in Roberto's patchkit adapted, I removed the
FEATURE_CHECK_LDFLAGS-disassembler-init-styled setting as we now
automatically try with multiple sets of libraries, as with
disassembler-four-args.

- Arnaldo

diff --git a/tools/perf/Makefile.config b/tools/perf/Makefile.config
index 23648ea54e8d3d2c..0661a1cf98556ed3 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Makefile.config
+++ b/tools/perf/Makefile.config
@@ -297,9 +297,6 @@ FEATURE_CHECK_LDFLAGS-libpython := $(PYTHON_EMBED_LDOPTS)
 
 FEATURE_CHECK_LDFLAGS-libaio = -lrt
 
-FEATURE_CHECK_LDFLAGS-disassembler-four-args = -lbfd -lopcodes -ldl
-FEATURE_CHECK_LDFLAGS-disassembler-init-styled = -lbfd -lopcodes -ldl
-
 CORE_CFLAGS += -fno-omit-frame-pointer
 CORE_CFLAGS += -ggdb3
 CORE_CFLAGS += -funwind-tables
@@ -329,8 +326,8 @@ ifneq ($(TCMALLOC),)
 endif
 
 ifeq ($(FEATURES_DUMP),)
-# We will display at the end of this Makefile.config, using $(call feature_display_entries)
-# As we may retry some feature detection here, see the disassembler-four-args case, for instance
+# We will display at the end of this Makefile.config, using $(call feature_display_entries),
+# as we may retry some feature detection here.
   FEATURE_DISPLAY_DEFERRED := 1
 include $(srctree)/tools/build/Makefile.feature
 else
@@ -924,13 +921,9 @@ ifndef NO_LIBBFD
 
     ifeq ($(feature-libbfd-liberty), 1)
       EXTLIBS += -lbfd -lopcodes -liberty
-      FEATURE_CHECK_LDFLAGS-disassembler-four-args += -liberty -ldl
-      FEATURE_CHECK_LDFLAGS-disassembler-init-styled += -liberty -ldl
     else
       ifeq ($(feature-libbfd-liberty-z), 1)
         EXTLIBS += -lbfd -lopcodes -liberty -lz
-        FEATURE_CHECK_LDFLAGS-disassembler-four-args += -liberty -lz -ldl
-        FEATURE_CHECK_LDFLAGS-disassembler-init-styled += -liberty -lz -ldl
       endif
     endif
     $(call feature_check,disassembler-four-args)
@@ -1356,7 +1349,7 @@ endif
 
 # re-generate FEATURE-DUMP as we may have called feature_check, found out
 # extra libraries to add to LDFLAGS of some other test and then redo those
-# tests, see the block about libbfd, disassembler-four-args, for instance.
+# tests.
 $(shell rm -f $(FEATURE_DUMP_FILENAME))
 $(foreach feat,$(FEATURE_TESTS),$(shell echo "$(call feature_assign,$(feat))" >> $(FEATURE_DUMP_FILENAME)))
 
 
> 
> FWIW, if I would have to maintain these, I'd probably change FEATURE_TESTS,
> FEATURE_DISPLAY into one-item-per-line to make conflicts less common and
> easier to resolve.
> 
> 
> > Andres, if you could take a look at Roberto's patchkit as well that
> > would be great.
> 
> I briefly scanned it, and the only real comment I have mirror's Quentin's,
> namely that it'd be nice to avoid displaying more tests that don't tell the
> user much.
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Andres Freund

-- 

- Arnaldo