linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] perf tools: Fix empty version number when building outside of a git repo

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Message-ID: <Yzccvf367WOK44U6@kernel.org>
Date:   Fri, 30 Sep 2022 13:43:41 -0300
From:   Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
To:     John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>
Cc:     Will Chandler <wfc@...handler.org>, peterz@...radead.org,
        mingo@...hat.com, mark.rutland@....com,
        alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com, jolsa@...nel.org,
        namhyung@...nel.org, linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] perf tools: Fix empty version number when building
 outside of a git repo

Em Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 05:14:43PM +0100, John Garry escreveu:
> On 30/09/2022 16:11, Will Chandler wrote:
> > When perf is built in a full source tree that is not a git repository,
> > e.g. from a kernel source tarball, `perf version` will print empty tag
> > and commit strings:
> > 
> >    $ perf version
> >    perf version
> > 
> > Currently the tag version is only generated from the root Makefile when
> > building in a git repository. If PERF-VERSION-FILE has not been
> > generated and the source tree is not in a git repository, then
> > PERF-VERSION-GEN will return an empty version.
> > 
> > The problem can be reproduced with the following steps:
> > 
> >    $ wget https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/t/linux-6.0-rc7.tar.gz
> >    $ tar -xf linux-6.0-rc7.tar.gz && cd linux-6.0-rc7
> >    $ make -C tools/perf
> >    $ tools/perf/perf -v
> >    perf version
> > 
> > Builds from tarballs generated with `make perf-tar-src-pkg` are not
> > impacted by this issue as PERF-VERSION-FILE is included in the archive.
> > 
> > The perf RPM provided by Fedora for 5.18+ is experiencing this problem.
> > Package build logs[0] show that the build is attempting to fall back on
> > PERF-VERSION-FILE, but it is not present.
> > 
> > To resolve this, revert back to the previous logic of using the kernel
> > Makefile version if not in a git repository and PERF-VERSION-FILE does
> > not exist.
> > 
> > [0] https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/kernel-tools/5.19.4/200.fc36/data/logs/x86_64/build.log
> > 
> > Fixes: 7572733b8499 ("perf tools: Fix version kernel tag, 2022-02-21")
> > Signed-off-by: Will Chandler <wfc@...handler.org>
> 
> This looks fine, thanks.
> 
> Reviewed-by: John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>

Tested, fixed the problem, applied.

- Arnaldo
 
> > ---
> > Range-diff against v1:
> > 1:  8195a5ccd82d < -:  ------------ perf tools: Fix empty version number when building outside of a git repo
> > -:  ------------ > 1:  a3beccdab700 perf tools: Fix empty version number when building outside of a git repo
> > 
> >   tools/perf/util/PERF-VERSION-GEN | 10 ++++++++--
> >   1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/tools/perf/util/PERF-VERSION-GEN b/tools/perf/util/PERF-VERSION-GEN
> > index 0ee5af529238..3cc42821d9b3 100755
> > --- a/tools/perf/util/PERF-VERSION-GEN
> > +++ b/tools/perf/util/PERF-VERSION-GEN
> > @@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ LF='
> >   '
> >   #
> > -# Always try first to get the version from the kernel Makefile
> > +# Use version from kernel Makefile unless not in a git repository and
> > +# PERF-VERSION-FILE exists
> >   #
> >   CID=
> >   TAG=
> > @@ -19,9 +20,14 @@ if test -d ../../.git -o -f ../../.git
> >   then
> >   	TAG=$(MAKEFLAGS= make -sC ../.. kernelversion)
> >   	CID=$(git log -1 --abbrev=12 --pretty=format:"%h" 2>/dev/null) && CID="-g$CID"
> > -else
> > +elif test -f ../../PERF-VERSION-FILE
> > +then
> >   	TAG=$(cut -d' ' -f3 ../../PERF-VERSION-FILE | sed -e 's/\"//g')
> >   fi
> > +if test -z "$TAG"
> > +then
> > +	TAG=$(MAKEFLAGS= make -sC ../.. kernelversion)
> > +fi
> >   VN="$TAG$CID"
> >   if test -n "$CID"

-- 

- Arnaldo