linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] perf: Avoid implicit function declarations in lexer/parse interface

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Message-ID: <87a5yl4b53.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com>
Date:   Wed, 03 May 2023 18:45:12 +0200
From:   Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com>
To:     Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
Cc:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
        "Justin M. Forbes" <jforbes@...oraproject.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] perf: Avoid implicit function declarations in
 lexer/parse interface

* Ian Rogers:

> On Wed, May 3, 2023 at 8:04 AM Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org> wrote:
>>
>> Em Wed, May 03, 2023 at 11:40:06AM +0200, Florian Weimer escreveu:
>> > * Florian Weimer:
>> > > * Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
>>
>> > >>> Thanks, applied. BTW b4 coulnd't find this message (nor the original):
>>
>> > > Yes, vger drops the message after accepting it for some reason, probably
>> > > something in the patch contents.  I tried to resubmit from a completely
>> > > separate account, no luck.
>> > >
>> > >> Not so fast, removed it for now:
>> > >>
>> > >>   CC      /tmp/build/perf-tools-next/util/parse-events-bison.o
>> > >> In file included from util/pmu.y:14:
>> > >> /tmp/build/perf-tools-next/util/pmu-flex.h:496:1: error: unknown type name ‘YYSTYPE’
>> > >>   496 |
>> > >>       | ^
>> > >> /tmp/build/perf-tools-next/util/pmu-flex.h:498:19: error: unknown type name ‘YYSTYPE’
>> > >>   498 |
>> > >>       |                   ^
>> > >> /tmp/build/perf-tools-next/util/pmu-flex.h:546:17: error: unknown type name ‘YYSTYPE’
>> > >>   546 | extern int yylex \
>> > >>       |                 ^~
>> > >> util/pmu-bison.c: In function ‘perf_pmu_parse’:
>> > >> /tmp/build/perf-tools-next/util/pmu-bison.c:69:25: error: implicit declaration of function ‘perf_pmu_lex’; did you mean ‘perf_pmu_free’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
>> > >>    69 | #define yylex           perf_pmu_lex
>> > >>       |                         ^~~~~~~~~~~~
>> > >> util/pmu-bison.c:1007:16: note: in expansion of macro ‘yylex’
>> > >
>> > > This appears to be related to some BPF filter stuff that is only in
>> > > perf-next, not mainline.
>> > >
>> > > Is this the right tree on which to base the patch?
>> > >
>> > >   <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git/>
>> > >
>> > > Branch perf-tools-next?
>> >
>> > Sorry, it doesn't build even without my patch:
>> >
>> > make[4]: *** No rule to make target 'zip.h', needed by '/tmp/build/libbpf/staticobjs/libbpf.o'.  Stop.
>>
>> I'm noticing this, but then I haven't merged with upstream yet, I bet
>> this is something upstream after merging the bpf branch... Nope, I just
>> did a test merge of what is in
>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git perf-tools
>> with upstream and it builds without problems on:
>>
>> [acme@...co perf-tools]$ head -2 /etc/os-release
>> NAME="Fedora Linux"
>> VERSION="37 (Workstation Edition)"
>> [acme@...co perf-tools]$
>>
>> I'll check on f38 and rawhide.
>>
>> - Arnaldo
>
> The zip.c and zip.h in libbpf are new, perhaps it is a fixdeps issue?
> Perhaps doing a clean build and retrying will address the problem.

Yeah, it's that.  I tried to reproduce the issue with a make command
similar to Arnaldo's, and forgot that *of course* O= overrides “git
clean”.

I'm now on 5d27a645f60940fdf589e4ff5351506a7f0fdbaa, can built it
cleanly, and will try to rebase my patch onto that.

Thanks,
Florian