This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled perf tools: Use %define api.pure full instead of %pure-parser to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: perf-tools-use-define-api.pure-full-instead-of-pure-parser.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From fc8c0a99223367b071c83711259d754b6bb7a379 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2020 20:22:59 +0100 Subject: perf tools: Use %define api.pure full instead of %pure-parser From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> commit fc8c0a99223367b071c83711259d754b6bb7a379 upstream. bison deprecated the "%pure-parser" directive in favor of "%define api.pure full". The api.pure got introduced in bison 2.3 (Oct 2007), so it seems safe to use it without any version check. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Clark Williams <williams@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200112192259.GA35080@krava Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/perf/util/expr.y | 3 ++- tools/perf/util/parse-events.y | 2 +- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/tools/perf/util/expr.y +++ b/tools/perf/util/expr.y @@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ #define MAXIDLEN 256 %} -%pure-parser +%define api.pure full + %parse-param { double *final_val } %parse-param { struct parse_ctx *ctx } %parse-param { const char **pp } --- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.y +++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.y @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -%pure-parser +%define api.pure full %parse-param {void *_parse_state} %parse-param {void *scanner} %lex-param {void* scanner} Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.14/perf-tools-use-define-api.pure-full-instead-of-pure-parser.patch queue-4.14/perf-make-perf-able-to-build-with-latest-libbfd.patch