Re: perf tools arch Arm CMN PMU JSON files build breakage on ubuntu 18.04 cross build

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Fri Dec 15 2023 - 09:46:11 EST


Em Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 11:41:19AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
> Em Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 11:39:14AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
> > Em Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 09:52:11AM +0530, kajoljain escreveu:
> > > > UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 55090: ordinal not in range(128)
> > > > CC /tmp/build/perf/tests/expr.o
> > > > pmu-events/Build:35: recipe for target '/tmp/build/perf/pmu-events/pmu-events.c' failed
> > > > make[3]: *** [/tmp/build/perf/pmu-events/pmu-events.c] Error 1
> > > > make[3]: *** Deleting file '/tmp/build/perf/pmu-events/pmu-events.c'
> > > > Makefile.perf:679: recipe for target '/tmp/build/perf/pmu-events/pmu-events-in.o' failed
> > > > make[2]: *** [/tmp/build/perf/pmu-events/pmu-events-in.o] Error 2
> > > > make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> >
> > > > Now jevents is an opt-out feature so I'm noticing these problems.
> >
> > > Thanks for raising it. I will check this issue.
> >
> > Now I'm seeing this on:
>
> Jing,
>
> Please take a look at:
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5d9df8731c0941f3add30f96745a62586a0c9d52
>
> For the fix for the ppc case above.

Its the only .json file with that issue:

⬢[acme@toolbox perf-tools-next]$ find tools/perf/pmu-events/ -name "*.json" | xargs file -i | grep -v us-ascii
tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/arm/cmn/sys/cmn.json: application/json; charset=utf-8
⬢[acme@toolbox perf-tools-next]$

- Arnaldo