On Sun, Dec 06, 2020 at 11:45:27PM +0900, Chanho Park wrote: > __always_inline can cause build error on musl libc. The fix patch has > submitted but not merged yet[1]. To build perf tool with musl libc, > <linux/stddef.h> inclusion is necessary and it should be included before > perf_event.h. > > from /usr/include/linux/byteorder/little_endian.h:13, > from /usr/include/asm/byteorder.h:23, > from tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h:20, > from arch/arm64/util/../../arm/util/pmu.c:9: > > /usr/include/linux/swab.h:171:8: error: unknown type name '__always_inline' > 171 | static __always_inline __u16 __swab16p(const __u16 *p) > | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > [1]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/9/13/78 > Cc: Mathieu Poirier <[email protected]> > Cc: Suzuki K Poulose <[email protected]> > Cc: Mike Leach <[email protected]> > Cc: Leo Yan <[email protected]> > Cc: John Garry <[email protected]> > Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]> > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> > Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> > Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> > Cc: Mark Rutland <[email protected]> > Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> > Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> > Cc: Khem Raj <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Chanho Park <[email protected]> > --- > tools/perf/arch/arm/util/pmu.c | 3 +++ > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/arm/util/pmu.c b/tools/perf/arch/arm/util/pmu.c > index bbc297a7e2e3..4c0357e8c0ab 100644 > --- a/tools/perf/arch/arm/util/pmu.c > +++ b/tools/perf/arch/arm/util/pmu.c > @@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ > > #include <string.h> > #include <linux/coresight-pmu.h> > +#if !defined(__GLIBC__) > +#include <linux/stddef.h> > +#endif
Looks like other files just include this unconditionally, but have a comment explaining why. See util/branch.h and util/event.h. Maybe we should do the same for util/pmu.h, which is already included here? Will

