Re: [PATCH 1/1] perf beauty: Move uapi/linux/fs.h copy out of the directory used to build perf

[Ian Rogers]

On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 2:27 PM Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
<acme@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> It is mostly used only to generate string tables, not to build perf, so
> move it to the tools/perf/trace/beauty/include/ hierarchy, that is used
> just for scrapping.
>
> The only case where it was being used to build was in
> tools/perf/trace/beauty/sync_file_range.c, because some older systems
> doesn't have the SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE_AND_WAIT define, just use the
> system's linux/fs.h header instead, defining it if not available.
>
> This is something that should've have been done already, as happened
> with the linux/socket.h scrapper, do it now as Ian suggested while doing
> an audit/refactor session in the headers used by perf.
>
> No other tools/ living code uses it, just <linux/fs.h> coming from
> either 'make install_headers' or from the system /usr/include/
> directory.
>
> Suggested-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAP-5=fWZVrpRufO4w-S4EcSi9STXcTAN2ERLwTSN7yrSSA-otQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
Ian