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authorIan Rogers <irogers@google.com>2023-03-22 11:31:08 -0700
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2023-04-04 09:39:54 -0300
commit1d7966547e11b1355f88086c26eb2086f6ea4770 (patch)
tree05df3e18291d5cecefd444fc4e8eb29b829983a4 /tools/perf/Makefile.perf
parent46d21ec067490ab9cdcc89b9de5aae28786a8b8e (diff)
perf build: Add warning for when vmlinux.h generation fails
The warning advises on the NO_BPF_SKEL=1 option. Suggested-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230322183108.1380882-1-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/Makefile.perf')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Makefile.perf6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Makefile.perf b/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
index ed6b6a070f79..48aba186ceb5 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
+++ b/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
@@ -1072,7 +1072,11 @@ VMLINUX_BTF ?= $(abspath $(firstword $(wildcard $(VMLINUX_BTF_PATHS))))
$(SKEL_OUT)/vmlinux.h: $(VMLINUX_BTF) $(BPFTOOL)
ifeq ($(VMLINUX_H),)
- $(QUIET_GEN)$(BPFTOOL) btf dump file $< format c > $@
+ $(QUIET_GEN)$(BPFTOOL) btf dump file $< format c > $@ || \
+ (echo "Failure to generate vmlinux.h needed for the recommended BPF skeleton support." && \
+ echo "To disable this use the build option NO_BPF_SKEL=1." && \
+ echo "Alternatively point at a pre-generated vmlinux.h with VMLINUX_H=<path>." && \
+ false)
else
$(Q)cp "$(VMLINUX_H)" $@
endif