linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] tools/build: Display logical OR of a feature flavors

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Date:   Thu, 18 Aug 2022 10:09:37 -0300
From:   Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
To:     roberto.sassu@...weicloud.com
Cc:     peterz@...radead.org, mingo@...hat.com, mark.rutland@....com,
        alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com, jolsa@...nel.org,
        namhyung@...nel.org, quentin@...valent.com,
        linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org, bpf@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] tools/build: Display logical OR of a feature flavors

Em Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 02:09:57PM +0200, roberto.sassu@...weicloud.com escreveu:
> From: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@...wei.com>
> 
> Sometimes, features are simply different flavors of another feature, to
> properly detect the exact dependencies needed by different Linux
> distributions.
> 
> For example, libbfd has three flavors: libbfd if the distro does not
> require any additional dependency; libbfd-liberty if it requires libiberty;
> libbfd-liberty-z if it requires libiberty and libz.
> 
> It might not be clear to the user whether a feature has been successfully
> detected or not, given that some of its flavors will be set to OFF, others
> to ON.
> 
> Instead, display only the feature main flavor if not in verbose mode
> (VF != 1), and set it to ON if at least one of its flavors has been
> successfully detected (logical OR), OFF otherwise. Omit the other flavors.
> 
> Accomplish that by declaring a FEATURE_GROUP_MEMBERS-<feature main flavor>
> variable, with the list of the other flavors as variable value. For now, do
> it just for libbfd.
> 
> In verbose mode, of if no group is defined for a feature, show the feature
> detection result as before.

Looks cool, tested and added this to the commit log message here in my
local branch, that will go public after further tests for the other
csets in it:

Committer testing:

Collecting the output from:

  $ make -C tools/bpf/bpftool/ clean
  $ make -C tools/bpf/bpftool/ |& grep "Auto-detecting system features" -A10

  $ diff -u before after
  --- before    2022-08-18 10:06:40.422086966 -0300
  +++ after     2022-08-18 10:07:59.202138282 -0300
  @@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
   Auto-detecting system features:
   ...                                  libbfd: [ on  ]
  -...                          libbfd-liberty: [ on  ]
  -...                        libbfd-liberty-z: [ on  ]
   ...                                  libcap: [ on  ]
   ...                         clang-bpf-co-re: [ on  ]
  $

Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>

Thanks for working on this!

- Arnaldo
 
> Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@...wei.com>
> ---
>  tools/build/Makefile.feature | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/build/Makefile.feature b/tools/build/Makefile.feature
> index 6c809941ff01..57619f240b56 100644
> --- a/tools/build/Makefile.feature
> +++ b/tools/build/Makefile.feature
> @@ -137,6 +137,12 @@ FEATURE_DISPLAY ?=              \
>           libaio			\
>           libzstd
>  
> +#
> +# Declare group members of a feature to display the logical OR of the detection
> +# result instead of each member result.
> +#
> +FEATURE_GROUP_MEMBERS-libbfd = libbfd-liberty libbfd-liberty-z
> +
>  # Set FEATURE_CHECK_(C|LD)FLAGS-all for all FEATURE_TESTS features.
>  # If in the future we need per-feature checks/flags for features not
>  # mentioned in this list we need to refactor this ;-).
> @@ -179,8 +185,17 @@ endif
>  #
>  feature_print_status = $(eval $(feature_print_status_code))
>  
> +feature_group = $(eval $(feature_gen_group)) $(GROUP)
> +
> +define feature_gen_group
> +  GROUP := $(1)
> +  ifneq ($(feature_verbose),1)
> +    GROUP += $(FEATURE_GROUP_MEMBERS-$(1))
> +  endif
> +endef
> +
>  define feature_print_status_code
> -  ifeq ($(feature-$(1)), 1)
> +  ifneq (,$(filter 1,$(foreach feat,$(call feature_group,$(feat)),$(feature-$(feat)))))
>      MSG = $(shell printf '...%40s: [ \033[32mon\033[m  ]' $(1))
>    else
>      MSG = $(shell printf '...%40s: [ \033[31mOFF\033[m ]' $(1))
> @@ -244,12 +259,20 @@ ifeq ($(VF),1)
>    feature_verbose := 1
>  endif
>  
> +ifneq ($(feature_verbose),1)
> +  #
> +  # Determine the features to omit from the displayed message, as only the
> +  # logical OR of the detection result will be shown.
> +  #
> +  FEATURE_OMIT := $(foreach feat,$(FEATURE_DISPLAY),$(FEATURE_GROUP_MEMBERS-$(feat)))
> +endif
> +
>  feature_display_entries = $(eval $(feature_display_entries_code))
>  define feature_display_entries_code
>    ifeq ($(feature_display),1)
>      $$(info )
>      $$(info Auto-detecting system features:)
> -    $(foreach feat,$(FEATURE_DISPLAY),$(call feature_print_status,$(feat),) $$(info $(MSG)))
> +    $(foreach feat,$(filter-out $(FEATURE_OMIT),$(FEATURE_DISPLAY)),$(call feature_print_status,$(feat),) $$(info $(MSG)))
>    endif
>  
>    ifeq ($(feature_verbose),1)
> -- 
> 2.25.1

-- 

- Arnaldo