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From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf auto-dep: Speed up feature tests by building them in parallel
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2013 15:05:17 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zjqsmcma.fsf@sejong.aot.lge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130930164210.GA22342@gmail.com> (Ingo Molnar's message of "Mon, 30 Sep 2013 18:42:10 +0200")

Hi Ingo,

On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 18:42:10 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> This series (with combo patch attached) implements (much) faster 
> perf-tools feature-auto-detection.
>
> I used 3 tricks to implement feature auto-dependencies and to speed up 
> feature detection:
>
>   - standalone Makefile in config/feature-checks/ built in parallel
>
>   - split-out standalone .c files in config/feature-checks/*.c
>
>   - used GCC's auto-dependency generation feature (-MD) to track the
>     effects of system library addition/removal.

I have a memory that this could lead to a nasty build failure.  Please
see the commit b6f4f804108b ("tools lib traceevent: Do not generate
dependency for system header files").

The problem is that it turned out to depend on some compiler headers
which are located under some directory with a version number.  If so,
when compiler upgraded to a new version, it cannot find the original
dependencies so fail to build.

 $ cat config/feature-checks/test-libelf.d
  test-libelf: test-libelf.c /usr/include/libelf.h /usr/include/sys/types.h \
   /usr/include/features.h /usr/include/stdc-predef.h \
   /usr/include/sys/cdefs.h /usr/include/bits/wordsize.h \
   /usr/include/gnu/stubs.h /usr/include/gnu/stubs-64.h \
   /usr/include/bits/types.h /usr/include/bits/typesizes.h \
   /usr/include/time.h \
   /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.7.2/include/stddef.h \
   /usr/include/endian.h /usr/include/bits/endian.h \
   /usr/include/bits/byteswap.h /usr/include/bits/byteswap-16.h \
   /usr/include/sys/select.h /usr/include/bits/select.h \
   /usr/include/bits/sigset.h /usr/include/bits/time.h \
   /usr/include/sys/sysmacros.h /usr/include/bits/pthreadtypes.h \
   /usr/include/elf.h \
   /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.7.2/include/stdint.h \
   /usr/include/stdint.h /usr/include/bits/wchar.h


In this case we are using this for feature-checking, so I guess it'd
fail to check the feature after upgrade.

Thanks,
Namhyung

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-10-02  6:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-12 13:38 [GIT PULL] perf fixes Ingo Molnar
2013-09-12 18:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-12 18:10   ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-12 18:43     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-09-12 19:12       ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-09-12 19:13         ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-12 19:55       ` Ingo Molnar
2013-09-12 19:58       ` David Ahern
2013-09-12 20:02         ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-09-12 20:31           ` Ingo Molnar
2013-09-12 20:43             ` Ingo Molnar
2013-09-15  9:10               ` [PATCH] perf test-hack: Split out feature tests to cache them and to build them in parallel Ingo Molnar
2013-09-30 16:42                 ` [PATCH] perf auto-dep: Speed up feature tests by building " Ingo Molnar
2013-09-30 17:12                   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-09-30 17:27                     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-09-30 17:30                       ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-09-30 17:36                         ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-09-30 17:39                           ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-09-30 17:46                             ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-09-30 18:02                               ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-09-30 19:15                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-09-30 19:09                         ` Ingo Molnar
2013-09-30 17:34                     ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-30 17:53                       ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-09-30 19:04                         ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-01 11:34                           ` [PATCH] perf autodep: Remove strlcpy feature check, add __weak strlcpy implementation Ingo Molnar
2013-10-01 12:04                             ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-01 12:48                               ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-10-01 12:51                               ` [PATCH] perf autodep: Speed up the 'all features are present' case Ingo Molnar
2013-10-01 14:46                             ` [PATCH] perf tools: Speed up git-version test on re-make Ingo Molnar
2013-10-02  6:47                               ` Namhyung Kim
2013-10-02  6:50                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-02  8:04                                   ` Namhyung Kim
2013-10-01 15:27                             ` [PATCH] perf autodep: Remove strlcpy feature check, add __weak strlcpy implementation Ingo Molnar
2013-10-01 15:29                               ` [PATCH] perf tools: Speed up the final link Ingo Molnar
2013-10-01  7:04                       ` [PATCH] perf auto-dep: Speed up feature tests by building them in parallel Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-10-01  8:38                         ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-02  6:05                   ` Namhyung Kim [this message]
2013-10-02  6:28                     ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-02  9:26                   ` Jiri Olsa
2013-10-02 10:11                     ` Ingo Molnar
2013-09-12 20:18         ` [GIT PULL] perf fixes Ingo Molnar
2013-09-12 20:38           ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-09-12 20:46             ` Ingo Molnar
2013-09-12 21:09               ` David Ahern
2013-09-12 21:18                 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-09-12 22:10                   ` David Ahern
2013-09-13  5:09                     ` Ingo Molnar
2013-09-13  9:32                       ` Jean Pihet
2013-09-13  9:45                         ` Ingo Molnar
2013-09-13 17:15                           ` Jean Pihet
2013-09-12 18:51     ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-12 20:33       ` Ingo Molnar
2013-09-12 20:38         ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-12 20:49           ` Ingo Molnar
2013-09-12 20:52             ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-12 21:01               ` Ingo Molnar
2013-09-12 20:10     ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-02  7:31   ` [PATCH] tools/perf: Fix double/triple-build of the feature detection logic during 'make install' et al Ingo Molnar
2013-10-02  9:28     ` [PATCH] tools/perf/build: Automatically build in parallel, based on number of CPUs in the system Ingo Molnar

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