The patch below does not apply to the 6.6-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.
Thanks, Sasha ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------ >From a537c0da168a08b0b6a7f7bd9e75f4cc8d45ff57 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Leo Yan <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2026 13:32:03 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] tools: Fix bitfield dependency failure MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit A perf build failure was reported by Thomas Voegtle on stable kernel v6.6.120: CC tests/sample-parsing.o CC util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-pkt-decoder.o CC util/perf-regs-arch/perf_regs_csky.o CC util/arm-spe-decoder/arm-spe-pkt-decoder.o CC util/perf-regs-arch/perf_regs_loongarch.o In file included from util/arm-spe-decoder/arm-spe-pkt-decoder.h:10, from util/arm-spe-decoder/arm-spe-pkt-decoder.c:14: /local/git/linux-stable-rc/tools/include/linux/bitfield.h: In function ‘le16_encode_bits’: /local/git/linux-stable-rc/tools/include/linux/bitfield.h:166:31: error: implicit declaration of function ‘cpu_to_le16’; did you mean ‘htole16’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] ____MAKE_OP(le##size,u##size,cpu_to_le##size,le##size##_to_cpu) \ ^~~~~~~~~ /local/git/linux-stable-rc/tools/include/linux/bitfield.h:149:9: note: in definition of macro ‘____MAKE_OP’ return to((v & field_mask(field)) * field_multiplier(field)); \ ^~ /local/git/linux-stable-rc/tools/include/linux/bitfield.h:170:1: note: in expansion of macro ‘__MAKE_OP’ __MAKE_OP(16) Fix this by including linux/kernel.h, which provides the required definitions. The issue was not found on the mainline due to the relevant C files have included kernel.h. It'd be good to merge this change on mainline as well for robustness. Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/stable/[email protected]/ Fixes: 64d86c03e1441742 ("perf arm-spe: Extend branch operations") Reported-by: Hamza Mahfooz <[email protected]> Reported-by: Thomas Voegtle <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <[email protected]> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> Cc: Ian Rogers <[email protected]> Cc: James Clark <[email protected]> Cc: Leo Yan <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> To: Sasha Levin <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> --- tools/include/linux/bitfield.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/tools/include/linux/bitfield.h b/tools/include/linux/bitfield.h index 6093fa6db2600..ddf81f24956ba 100644 --- a/tools/include/linux/bitfield.h +++ b/tools/include/linux/bitfield.h @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ #define _LINUX_BITFIELD_H #include <linux/build_bug.h> +#include <linux/kernel.h> #include <asm/byteorder.h> /* -- 2.51.0
