Re: [GIT PULL] UAPI: perf fixes

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Tue Nov 13 2012 - 11:34:59 EST


Em Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 10:42:02AM -0500, Josh Boyer escreveu:
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 10:24 AM, David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > tools/perf/builtin-kvm.c became x86-only with the following commit:
> >
> > commit bcf6edcd6fdb8965290f0b635a530fa3c6c212e1
> > Author: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Mon Sep 17 16:31:15 2012 +0800
> > Subject: perf kvm: Events analysis tool
> >
> > when it added:
> >
> > +#include "../../arch/x86/include/asm/svm.h"
> > +#include "../../arch/x86/include/asm/vmx.h"
> > +#include "../../arch/x86/include/asm/kvm.h"
> >
> > and my changing these to <asm/foo.h> doesn't matter because of this in the
> > same file:
> >
> > +struct exit_reasons_table vmx_exit_reasons[] = {
> > + VMX_EXIT_REASONS
> > +};
> > +
> > +struct exit_reasons_table svm_exit_reasons[] = {
> > + SVM_EXIT_REASONS
> > +};
> >
> > which use macros only x86 defines.
>
> Ah. You are quite right. So your patches actually fix the unistd.h
> error we were seeing early and just got us far enough to hit this other
> unrelated problem. My mistake.
>
> > Should the exported parts of these files be moved to asm-generic?
>
> Good question.

Probably we should do Makefile changes to build 'perf kvm' only on the
platforms where it makes sense.

- Arnaldo
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