On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 5:37 AM Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The runqslower tool refuses to build without a file to read vmlinux BTF
> from. The build fails with an error message to override the location by
> setting the VMLINUX_BTF variable if autodetection fails. However, the
> Makefile doesn't actually work with that override - the error message is
> still emitted.
>
> Fix this by including the value of VMLINUX_BTF in the expansion, and only
> emitting the error message if the *result* is empty. Also permit running
> 'make clean' even though no VMLINUX_BTF is set.
>
> Fixes: 9c01546d26d2 ("tools/bpf: Add runqslower tool to tools/bpf")
> Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
approach looks good, thanks, few nits below
> tools/bpf/runqslower/Makefile | 18 +++++++++---------
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/bpf/runqslower/Makefile b/tools/bpf/runqslower/Makefile
> index cff2fbcd29a8..b62fc9646c39 100644
> --- a/tools/bpf/runqslower/Makefile
> +++ b/tools/bpf/runqslower/Makefile
> @@ -10,13 +10,9 @@ CFLAGS := -g -Wall
>
> # Try to detect best kernel BTF source
> KERNEL_REL := $(shell uname -r)
> -ifneq ("$(wildcard /sys/kernel/btf/vmlinux)","")
> -VMLINUX_BTF := /sys/kernel/btf/vmlinux
> -else ifneq ("$(wildcard /boot/vmlinux-$(KERNEL_REL))","")
> -VMLINUX_BTF := /boot/vmlinux-$(KERNEL_REL)
> -else
> -$(error "Can't detect kernel BTF, use VMLINUX_BTF to specify it explicitly")
> -endif
> +VMLINUX_BTF_PATHS := /sys/kernel/btf/vmlinux /boot/vmlinux-$(KERNEL_REL)
> +VMLINUX_BTF_PATH := $(abspath $(or $(VMLINUX_BTF),$(firstword \
> + $(wildcard $(VMLINUX_BTF_PATHS)))))
you can drop abspath, relative path for VMLINUX_BTF would work just fine
>
> abs_out := $(abspath $(OUTPUT))
> ifeq ($(V),1)
> @@ -67,9 +63,13 @@ $(OUTPUT):
> $(call msg,MKDIR,$@)
> $(Q)mkdir -p $(OUTPUT)
>
> -$(OUTPUT)/vmlinux.h: $(VMLINUX_BTF) | $(OUTPUT) $(BPFTOOL)
> +$(OUTPUT)/vmlinux.h: $(VMLINUX_BTF_PATH) | $(OUTPUT) $(BPFTOOL)
> $(call msg,GEN,$@)
> - $(Q)$(BPFTOOL) btf dump file $(VMLINUX_BTF) format c > $@
> + @if [ ! -e "$(VMLINUX_BTF_PATH)" ] ; then \
$(Q), not @
> + echo "Couldn't find kernel BTF; set VMLINUX_BTF to specify its location."; \
> + exit 1;\
nit: please align \'s (same above for VMLONUX_BTF_PATH) at the right
edge as it's done everywhere in this Makefile
> + fi
> + $(Q)$(BPFTOOL) btf dump file $(VMLINUX_BTF_PATH) format c > $@
>
> $(OUTPUT)/libbpf.a: | $(OUTPUT)
> $(Q)$(MAKE) $(submake_extras) -C $(LIBBPF_SRC) \
>
