On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 06:00:30PM +0300, Nikolay Borisov wrote: > [Resending since I did mistyped the stable mailing list address] > > > On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 06:13:43PM +0300, Nikolay Borisov wrote: > >> > >> > >> On 05/18/2016 06:10 PM, Greg KH wrote: > >>> On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 04:02:35PM +0300, Nikolay Borisov wrote: > >>>> Hello Greg, > >>>> > >>>> Turns out building perf is broken in the 4.4 kernel tree on centos6. > >>>> Executing make in toosl/perf results in : > >>>> > >>>> cc1: warnings being treated as errors > >>>> tests/llvm.c: In function ‘test_llvm__fetch_bpf_obj’: > >>>> tests/llvm.c:53: error: declaration of ‘index’ shadows a global declaration > >>>> /usr/include/string.h:489: error: shadowed declaration is here > >>>> mv: cannot stat `tests/.llvm.o.tmp': No such file or directory > >>>> > >>>> This can be fixed by applying the following commit: > >>>> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=916d4092a1d2d7bb50630497be71ee4c4c2807fa > >>>> > >>>> Would it be possible to apply it for 4.4.12 otherwise using perf from > >>>> that tree is useless? > >>> > >>> Is this something that recently broke? Or has it always been an issue? > >> > >> According to the Fixes tags in the commit this broke in the following > >> series: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=144681782820358 > >> > >> Which was applied in November 6. 2015. So I'd say it's been fairly > >> recently. > > > > So it's always been broken in 4.4? Or did I break it in a newer > > release? > > Before that I was on 3.12 stable and everything worked, so I guess it > did break in the release which included the aforementioned patches. That's not what I need to know. Is 4.4.0 broken? If not, then I worry, if so, then there's not really anything interesting here. Unless 4.6.0 also works. Does it? We need some help narrowing this down if you want to see it resolved. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html