tldr; Just FYI, I'm carrying this on the perf tools tree.
Full explanation:
There used to be no copies, with tools/ code using kernel headers
directly. From time to time tools/perf/ broke due to legitimate kernel
hacking. At some point Linus complained about such direct usage. Then we
adopted the current model.
The way these headers are used in perf are not restricted to just
including them to compile something.
There are sometimes used in scripts that convert defines into string
tables, etc, so some change may break one of these scripts, or new MSRs
may use some different #define pattern, etc.
E.g.:
$ ls -1 tools/perf/trace/beauty/*.sh | head -5
tools/perf/trace/beauty/arch_errno_names.sh
tools/perf/trace/beauty/drm_ioctl.sh
tools/perf/trace/beauty/fadvise.sh
tools/perf/trace/beauty/fsconfig.sh
tools/perf/trace/beauty/fsmount.sh
$
$ tools/perf/trace/beauty/fadvise.sh
static const char *fadvise_advices[] = {
[0] = "NORMAL",
[1] = "RANDOM",
[2] = "SEQUENTIAL",
[3] = "WILLNEED",
[4] = "DONTNEED",
[5] = "NOREUSE",
};
$
The tools/perf/check-headers.sh script, part of the tools/ build
process, points out changes in the original files.
So its important not to touch the copies in tools/ when doing changes in
the original kernel headers, that will be done later, when
check-headers.sh inform about the change to the perf tools hackers.
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/arch/mips/entry/syscalls/syscall_n64.tbl | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/mips/entry/syscalls/syscall_n64.tbl b/tools/perf/arch/mips/entry/syscalls/syscall_n64.tbl
index 80be0e98ea0c..116ff501bf92 100644
--- a/tools/perf/arch/mips/entry/syscalls/syscall_n64.tbl
+++ b/tools/perf/arch/mips/entry/syscalls/syscall_n64.tbl
@@ -367,3 +367,7 @@
450 common set_mempolicy_home_node sys_set_mempolicy_home_node
451 n64 cachestat sys_cachestat
452 n64 fchmodat2 sys_fchmodat2
+453 n64 map_shadow_stack sys_map_shadow_stack
+454 n64 futex_wake sys_futex_wake
+455 n64 futex_wait sys_futex_wait
+456 n64 futex_requeue sys_futex_requeue
--
2.43.0.rc1.413.gea7ed67945-goog
