linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] perf tools changes for v6.4

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Date:   Thu, 4 May 2023 20:36:16 +0200
From:   Jiri Olsa <olsajiri@...il.com>
To:     Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Clark Williams <williams@...hat.com>,
        Kate Carcia <kcarcia@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org,
        Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
        Changbin Du <changbin.du@...wei.com>,
        Hao Luo <haoluo@...gle.com>, James Clark <james.clark@....com>,
        Kan Liang <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>,
        Roman Lozko <lozko.roma@...il.com>,
        Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>,
        Thomas Richter <tmricht@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] perf tools changes for v6.4

On Wed, May 03, 2023 at 10:51:15PM -0700, Ian Rogers wrote:
> On Wed, May 3, 2023 at 8:12 PM Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, May 3, 2023 at 8:00 PM Linus Torvalds
> > <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > I did consider it, but the end result doesn't even build, so I unpulled again..
> > >
> > > I get some libbpf error, and I'm just not interested in trying to
> > > debug it. This has clearly not been tested well enough to be merged.
> >
> > Side note: its' not even about testing.
> >
> > The error message makes it clear that this is garbage and should never
> > be merged even if it were to compile.
> >
> > There is not a way in hell that it is correct that a 'perf' tool build
> > should ever even look at the vmlinux binary to build.
> >
> > The fact that it does shows that something is seriously wrong in
> > perf-tool land, and I will not be touching any pulls until that
> > fundamental mistake is entirely gone.
> >
> > The vmlinux image that is present in my tree (ie
> > /home/torvalds/v2.6/linux/vmlinux) is a test build with an insane
> > config. And the fact that the perf tool even looks at it is seriously
> > broken.
> >
> > Whatever you are doing - stop it right now.
> >
> >                Linus
> 
> I think the error you gave makes it pretty clear what is going on and
> Arnaldo's e-mail explains the motivation. Perhaps we can check a
> vmlinux.h into the perf tree so that we don't default to generating
> it. This would avoid the binary dependency but we may need different
> flavors for different architectures because of structs like pt_regs.

I think we could check that vmlinux with .BTF is present before
allowing to build skeletons

jirka