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SubjectRe: [PATCH 4.19 000/264] 4.19.153-rc1 review
On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 08:36:21PM +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> Hi Guenter,
>
> On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 05:27:41AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On 11/14/20 12:35 AM, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> > > Hi Guenter,
> > >
> > > On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 07:31:32AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > >> On 10/31/20 2:45 AM, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> > >>> Hi Greg,
> > >>>
> > >>> On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 12:56:19PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > >>>> Retry.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 10:10:35AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > >>>>> On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 02:50:58PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > >>>>>> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.19.153 release.
> > >>>>>> There are 264 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> > >>>>>> to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > >>>>>> let me know.
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> Responses should be made by Thu, 29 Oct 2020 13:53:47 +0000.
> > >>>>>> Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> Build results:
> > >>>>> total: 155 pass: 152 fail: 3
> > >>>>> Failed builds:
> > >>>>> i386:tools/perf
> > >>>>> powerpc:ppc6xx_defconfig
> > >>>>> x86_64:tools/perf
> > >>>>> Qemu test results:
> > >>>>> total: 417 pass: 417 fail: 0
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> perf failures are as usual. powerpc:
> > >>>
> > >>> Regarding the perf failures, do you plan to revert b801d568c7d8 ("perf
> > >>> cs-etm: Move definition of 'traceid_list' global variable from header
> > >>> file") included in 4.19.152 or is a bugfix underway?
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> The problem is:
> > >>
> > >> In file included from util/evlist.h:15:0,
> > >> from util/evsel.c:30:
> > >> util/evsel.c: In function ‘perf_evsel__exit’:
> > >> util/util.h:25:28: error: passing argument 1 of ‘free’ discards ‘const’ qualifier from pointer target type
> > >> /usr/include/stdlib.h:563:13: note: expected ‘void *’ but argument is of type ‘const char *’
> > >> extern void free (void *__ptr) __THROW;
> > >>
> > >> This is seen with older versions of gcc (6.5.0 in my case). I have no idea why
> > >> newer versions of gcc/glibc accept this (afaics free() still expects a char *,
> > >> not a const char *). The underlying problem is that pmu_name should not be
> > >> declared const char *, but char *, since it is allocated. The upstream version
> > >> of perf no longer uses the same definition of zfree(). It was changed from
> > >> #define zfree(ptr) ({ free(*ptr); *ptr = NULL; })
> > >> to
> > >> #define zfree(ptr) __zfree((void **)(ptr))
> > >> which does the necessary typecast. The fix would be to either change the definition
> > >> of zfree to add the typecast, or to change the definition of pmu_name to drop the const.
> > >> Both would only apply to v4.19.y. I don't know if either would be acceptable.
> > >>
> > >> Either case, reverting b801d568c7d8 won't solve that problem.
> > >
> > > Are we talking about the same problem though? With v4.19.157 and
> > > building with "gcc (Debian 8.3.0-6) 8.3.0", with an unpatched source:
> > >
> > > $ LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 ARCH=x86 make perf
> > > mkdir -p .
> > > make --no-print-directory -C perf O= subdir=
> > > BUILD: Doing 'make -j2' parallel build
> > > Warning: Kernel ABI header at 'tools/include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h' differs from latest version at 'include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h'
> > > diff -u tools/include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h
> > > Warning: Kernel ABI header at 'tools/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h' differs from latest version at 'include/uapi/linux/kvm.h'
> > > diff -u tools/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
> > > Warning: Kernel ABI header at 'tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h' differs from latest version at 'include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h'
> > > diff -u tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
> > > Warning: Kernel ABI header at 'tools/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h' differs from latest version at 'arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h'
> > > diff -u tools/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
> > > Warning: Kernel ABI header at 'tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h' differs from latest version at 'arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h'
> > > diff -u tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
> > > Warning: Kernel ABI header at 'tools/arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S' differs from latest version at 'arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S'
> > > diff -u tools/arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S
> > > Warning: Kernel ABI header at 'tools/include/uapi/linux/mman.h' differs from latest version at 'include/uapi/linux/mman.h'
> > > diff -u tools/include/uapi/linux/mman.h include/uapi/linux/mman.h
> > >
> > > Auto-detecting system features:
> > > ... dwarf: [ on ]
> > > ... dwarf_getlocations: [ on ]
> > > ... glibc: [ on ]
> > > ... gtk2: [ OFF ]
> > > ... libaudit: [ on ]
> > > ... libbfd: [ OFF ]
> > > ... libelf: [ on ]
> > > ... libnuma: [ on ]
> > > ... numa_num_possible_cpus: [ on ]
> > > ... libperl: [ on ]
> > > ... libpython: [ on ]
> > > ... libslang: [ on ]
> > > ... libcrypto: [ on ]
> > > ... libunwind: [ on ]
> > > ... libdw-dwarf-unwind: [ on ]
> > > ... zlib: [ on ]
> > > ... lzma: [ on ]
> > > ... get_cpuid: [ on ]
> > > ... bpf: [ on ]
> > >
> > > Makefile.config:456: No sys/sdt.h found, no SDT events are defined, please install systemtap-sdt-devel or systemtap-sdt-dev
> > > Makefile.config:623: GTK2 not found, disables GTK2 support. Please install gtk2-devel or libgtk2.0-dev
> > > Makefile.config:682: No 'python-config' tool was found: disables Python support - please install python-devel/python-dev
> > > Makefile.config:853: No alternatives command found, you need to set JDIR= to point to the root of your Java directory
> > > Warning: Kernel ABI header at 'tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h' differs from latest version at 'include/uapi/linux/bpf.h'
> > > CC util/cs-etm-decoder/cs-etm-decoder.o
> > > CC util/intel-pt.o
> > > util/cs-etm-decoder/cs-etm-decoder.c: In function 'cs_etm_decoder__buffer_packet':
> > > util/cs-etm-decoder/cs-etm-decoder.c:287:24: error: 'traceid_list' undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean 'trace_event'?
> > > inode = intlist__find(traceid_list, trace_chan_id);
> > > ^~~~~~~~~~~~
> > > trace_event
> > > util/cs-etm-decoder/cs-etm-decoder.c:287:24: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
> > > make[6]: *** [/build/linux-stable/tools/build/Makefile.build:97: util/cs-etm-decoder/cs-etm-decoder.o] Error 1
> > > make[5]: *** [/build/linux-stable/tools/build/Makefile.build:139: cs-etm-decoder] Error 2
> > > make[5]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> > > make[4]: *** [/build/linux-stable/tools/build/Makefile.build:139: util] Error 2
> > > make[3]: *** [Makefile.perf:633: libperf-in.o] Error 2
> > > make[2]: *** [Makefile.perf:206: sub-make] Error 2
> > > make[1]: *** [Makefile:70: all] Error 2
> > > make: *** [Makefile:77: perf] Error 2
> > >
> > > Reverting b801d568c7d8 would still fix the issue for me.
> > >
> >
> > You are correct, that is a different issue, and b801d568c7d8 will need to be reverted
> > to fix it. I just can't figure out how to convince perf to compile this file for me.
>
> Thanks for confirming/acking.
>
> So how to move from here, Greg do you need an explicit patch with the
> revert or can it be taken from here?

An explicit patch is always best, as I can't test this because I have
the same build problems that Guenter has for this.

thanks,

greg k-h

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