Re: [PATCH] sample/bpf: Make perf_event_read() static

[Daniel Borkmann]

On 12/15/2016 04:29 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> While testing Joe's conversion of samples/bpf/ to use tools/lib/bpf/ I
> noticed some warnings, do you guys mind if I put patches like the one
> below in my tree, pushing to Ingo soon?
>
> Or is there anything subtle against doing so?

Fwiw, no objections from my side, there is currently nothing in
net/net-next tree that could cause conflicts regarding the below
change, so should be good to take this route instead.

> ----
>
> While building samples/bpf/ on a Fedora Rawhide container, with
> clang/llvm 3.9 I noticed this:
>
> root@1e797fdfbf4f linux]# make -j4 O=/tmp/build/linux/ samples/bpf/
> make[1]: Entering directory '/tmp/build/linux'
>    CHK     include/config/kernel.release
>    GEN     ./Makefile
>    CHK     include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h
>    Using /git/linux as source for kernel
> <SNIP>
>    HOSTCC  samples/bpf/trace_output_user.o
> /git/linux/samples/bpf/trace_output_user.c:64:6: warning: no previous
> prototype for 'perf_event_read' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
>   void perf_event_read(print_fn fn)
>        ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>    HOSTLD  samples/bpf/trace_output
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/build/linux'
>
> Shutup the compiler by setting that function as static.
>
> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@xxxxxxxxxx>,
> Cc: Joe Stringer <joe@xxxxxxx>
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-2wkr4ymwhdie0stbkbiyplt5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
Daniel