linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 2/8] perf python: split Clang options when invoking Popen

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Message-Id: <20250930-perf_build_android_ndk-v2-2-2ea440b7ef01@arm.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2025 17:54:50 +0100
From: Leo Yan <leo.yan@....com>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>, 
 Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>, 
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Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org, 
 llvm@...ts.linux.dev, linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, 
 Leo Yan <leo.yan@....com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/8] perf python: split Clang options when invoking
 Popen

When passing a list to subprocess.Popen, each element maps to one argv
token. Current code bundles multiple Clang flags into a single element,
something like:

  cmd = ['clang',
         '--target=x86_64-linux-gnu -fintegrated-as -Wno-cast-function-type-mismatch',
	 'test-hello.c']

So Clang only sees one long, invalid option instead of separate flags,
as a result, the script cannot capture any log via PIPE.

Fix this by using shlex.split() to separate the string so each option
becomes its own argv element. The fixed list will be:

  cmd = ['clang',
         '--target=x86_64-linux-gnu',
	 '-fintegrated-as',
	 '-Wno-cast-function-type-mismatch',
	 'test-hello.c']

Fixes: 09e6f9f98370 ("perf python: Fix splitting CC into compiler and options")
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@....com>
---
 tools/perf/util/setup.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/setup.py b/tools/perf/util/setup.py
index dd289d15acfd62ff058bbaed7e565bb958e3a3c8..9cae2c472f4ad4d9579e8528b8bb0152df6fe20e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/setup.py
+++ b/tools/perf/util/setup.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 from os import getenv, path
 from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
 from re import sub
+import shlex
 
 cc = getenv("CC")
 assert cc, "Environment variable CC not set"
@@ -22,7 +23,9 @@ assert srctree, "Environment variable srctree, for the Linux sources, not set"
 src_feature_tests  = f'{srctree}/tools/build/feature'
 
 def clang_has_option(option):
-    cc_output = Popen([cc, cc_options + option, path.join(src_feature_tests, "test-hello.c") ], stderr=PIPE).stderr.readlines()
+    cmd = shlex.split(f"{cc} {cc_options} {option}")
+    cmd.append(path.join(src_feature_tests, "test-hello.c"))
+    cc_output = Popen(cmd, stderr=PIPE).stderr.readlines()
     return [o for o in cc_output if ((b"unknown argument" in o) or (b"is not supported" in o) or (b"unknown warning option" in o))] == [ ]
 
 if cc_is_clang:

-- 
2.34.1