This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled perf: Make perf able to build with latest libbfd 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-make-perf-able-to-build-with-latest-libbfd.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 0ada120c883d4f1f6aafd01cf0fbb10d8bbba015 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Changbin Du <changbin.du@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 23:29:38 +0800 Subject: perf: Make perf able to build with latest libbfd From: Changbin Du <changbin.du@xxxxxxxxx> commit 0ada120c883d4f1f6aafd01cf0fbb10d8bbba015 upstream. libbfd has changed the bfd_section_* macros to inline functions bfd_section_<field> since 2019-09-18. See below two commits: o http://www.sourceware.org/ml/gdb-cvs/2019-09/msg00064.html o https://www.sourceware.org/ml/gdb-cvs/2019-09/msg00072.html This fix make perf able to build with both old and new libbfd. Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200128152938.31413-1-changbin.du@xxxxxxxxx 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/srcline.c | 16 +++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/tools/perf/util/srcline.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/srcline.c @@ -139,16 +139,30 @@ static void find_address_in_section(bfd bfd_vma pc, vma; bfd_size_type size; struct a2l_data *a2l = data; + flagword flags; if (a2l->found) return; - if ((bfd_get_section_flags(abfd, section) & SEC_ALLOC) == 0) +#ifdef bfd_get_section_flags + flags = bfd_get_section_flags(abfd, section); +#else + flags = bfd_section_flags(section); +#endif + if ((flags & SEC_ALLOC) == 0) return; pc = a2l->addr; +#ifdef bfd_get_section_vma vma = bfd_get_section_vma(abfd, section); +#else + vma = bfd_section_vma(section); +#endif +#ifdef bfd_get_section_size size = bfd_get_section_size(section); +#else + size = bfd_section_size(section); +#endif if (pc < vma || pc >= vma + size) return; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from changbin.du@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.14/perf-make-perf-able-to-build-with-latest-libbfd.patch