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From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
To: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
	Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>,
	Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>, Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>,
	John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>,
	KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>,
	Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tools include: Add __sum16 and __wsum definitions.
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2021 10:41:34 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YEYpjqar4SW08CTK@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4aa2a66d-b8e4-adfe-8b61-615d98012a65@iogearbox.net>

Em Mon, Mar 08, 2021 at 02:37:32PM +0100, Daniel Borkmann escreveu:
> On 3/7/21 11:30 PM, Ian Rogers wrote:
> > This adds definitions available in the uapi version.
> > 
> > Explanation:
> > In the kernel include of types.h the uapi version is included.
> > In tools the uapi/linux/types.h and linux/types.h are distinct.
> > For BPF programs a definition of __wsum is needed by the generated
> > bpf_helpers.h. The definition comes either from a generated vmlinux.h or
> > from <linux/types.h> that may be transitively included from bpf.h. The
> > perf build prefers linux/types.h over uapi/linux/types.h for
> > <linux/types.h>*. To allow tools/perf/util/bpf_skel/bpf_prog_profiler.bpf.c
> > to compile with the same include path used for perf then these
> > definitions are necessary.
> > 
> > There is likely a wider conversation about exactly how types.h should be
> > specified and the include order used by the perf build - it is somewhat
> > confusing that tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h is using the non-uapi
> > types.h.
> > 
> > *see tools/perf/Makefile.config:
> > ...
> > INC_FLAGS += -I$(srctree)/tools/include/
> > INC_FLAGS += -I$(srctree)/tools/arch/$(SRCARCH)/include/uapi
> > INC_FLAGS += -I$(srctree)/tools/include/uapi
> > ...
> > The include directories are scanned from left-to-right:
> > https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Directory-Options.html
> > As tools/include/linux/types.h appears before
> > tools/include/uapi/linux/types.h then I say it is preferred.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
> 
> Given more related to perf build infra, I presume Arnaldo would pick
> this one up?

I'll process it.

- Arnaldo

      reply	other threads:[~2021-03-08 13:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-07 22:30 [PATCH] tools include: Add __sum16 and __wsum definitions Ian Rogers
2021-03-08 13:37 ` Daniel Borkmann
2021-03-08 13:41   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]

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