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From: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@gmail.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] objtool,perf: Use shared x86 insn decoder
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2019 10:51:52 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190831105152.bcacc88a7cc760070fc95d98@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190830194845.GI28011@kernel.org>

On Fri, 30 Aug 2019 16:48:45 -0300
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> wrote:

> Em Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 02:31:09PM -0500, Josh Poimboeuf escreveu:
> > On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 04:00:58PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > > I.e. we need to make sure that it always gets the x86 stuff, not
> > > something that is tied to the host arch, with the patch below we get it
> > > to work, please take a look.
> > > 
> > > Probably this should go to the master copy, i.e. to the kernel sources,
> > > no?

Interesting approach. Hmm, but I would like "diff -I" trick just
for short term solution.

> > > 
> > > That or we'll have to ask the check-headers.sh and objtool sync-check
> > > (hey, this should be unified, each project could provide just the list
> > > of things it uses, but I digress) to ignore those lines...
> > > 
> > > I.e. we want to decode intel_PT traces on other arches, ditto for
> > > CoreSight (not affected here, but similar concept).
> > > 
> > > will kick the full container build process now.
> > 
> > Interesting, I didn't realize other arches would be using it.  The patch
> 
> Yeah, decoding CoreSight (aarch64) hardware traces on x86_64 should be
> as possible as decoding Intel PT hardware traces on aarch64 :-)
> 
> > looks good to me.
> > 
> > Ideally there wouldn't be any differences between the headers, but if
> > that's unavoidable then I guess we can just use the same 'diff -I' trick
> 
> I'll go with this now, but...
> 
> > we were using before in the check script(s).
> 
> Masami? What do you think of applying the patch to the main kernel
> sources so that building a decoder for x86 on any other arch becomes
> possible?

I think the build of kernel and user-space tools are different especially
for "include/asm", since user-space tools may want to use all architecture
features, but kernel needs only the architecture which it runs on.
Maybe we need a special Makefile entries for the modules which depends
on architecture dependent parts. e.g.

x86-objs = insn.o inat.o ...
arm64-objs = coresight.o ...

and they should have different -I options ('-I arch/x86/include' or 
'-I arch/arm64/include') for compiling.
I think this is better and scalable, if you use common (clone) files in
the kernel tree.

Thank you,

-- 
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>

  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-31  1:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-29 22:41 [PATCH 0/4] objtool,perf: Use shared x86 insn decoder Josh Poimboeuf
2019-08-29 22:41 ` [PATCH 1/4] objtool: Move x86 insn decoder to a common location Josh Poimboeuf
2019-09-02  8:16   ` [tip: perf/core] " tip-bot2 for Josh Poimboeuf
2019-08-29 22:41 ` [PATCH 2/4] perf: Update .gitignore file Josh Poimboeuf
2019-09-02  8:16   ` [tip: perf/core] " tip-bot2 for Josh Poimboeuf
2019-08-29 22:41 ` [PATCH 3/4] perf intel-pt: Remove inat.c from build dependency list Josh Poimboeuf
2019-09-02  8:16   ` [tip: perf/core] " tip-bot2 for Josh Poimboeuf
2019-08-29 22:41 ` [PATCH 4/4] perf intel-pt: Use shared x86 insn decoder Josh Poimboeuf
2019-08-30 19:59   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2019-08-30 20:06     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2019-08-30 20:10       ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-09-02  8:16   ` [tip: perf/core] " tip-bot2 for Josh Poimboeuf
2019-08-30  7:19 ` [PATCH 0/4] objtool,perf: " Peter Zijlstra
2019-08-30 15:20 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2019-08-30 15:41   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2019-08-30 18:40 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2019-08-30 19:00   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2019-08-30 19:31     ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-08-30 19:48       ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2019-08-31  1:51         ` Masami Hiramatsu [this message]
2019-08-31 20:19           ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2019-09-01  2:36             ` Masami Hiramatsu
2019-09-02  8:16       ` [tip: perf/core] objtool: Update sync-check.sh from perf's check-headers.sh tip-bot2 for Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2019-09-02  8:16       ` [tip: perf/core] objtool: Ignore intentional differences for the x86 insn decoder tip-bot2 for Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

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