On Tue, Oct 13, 2026 at 01:08:53PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote: > On Mon, Oct 12, 2026 at 03:07:10PM -0700, Ian Rogers wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 11, 2026 at 4:36 PM Sasha Levin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > +# Every optional feature off, so the result does not depend on which > > > +# libraries are installed > > > +perf-flags-$(CONFIG_TOOLS_BUILD_PERF_MINIMAL) += \ > > > + NO_LIBELF=1 NO_LIBTRACEEVENT=1 NO_JEVENTS=1 NO_LIBPYTHON=1 > > > NO_LIBDW=1 \ > > > + NO_LIBBPF=1 BUILD_BPF_SKEL=0 NO_SLANG=1 NO_GTK2=1 NO_AIO=1 \ > > > + NO_BACKTRACE=1 NO_DEMANGLE=1 NO_LZMA=1 NO_LIBZSTD=1 NO_ZLIB=1 \ > > > + NO_LIBNUMA=1 NO_LIBUNWIND=1 NO_LIBLLVM=1 NO_CAPSTONE=1 > > > NO_LIBPFM4=1 \ > > > + NO_SDT=1 NO_JVMTI=1 NO_LIBDEBUGINFOD=1 NO_BABELTRACE2=1 NO_RUST=1 > > > \ > > > + NO_SHELLCHECK=1 NO_PERF_READ_VDSO32=1 NO_PERF_READ_VDSOX32=1
> > It seems unfortunate to maintain this list here, we also have a > > minimal target as a build test here: > > https://web.git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools-next.git/tree/tools/perf/tests/make?h=perf-tools-next#n123 > > I wonder we should just add support for a MINIMAL=1 variable in > > tools/perf/Makefile.config and have that set these other variables. > Yup :( > What allmodconfig really wants from perf is what allmodconfig already does for > the kernel: build everything the environment supports and skip the rest. A > kernel option that needs something the toolchain lacks just ends up off rather > than breaking the build. > perf has no mode like that I think? A default build fails when libelf, > libtraceevent or python is missing, so an arm64 cross build, or a native build > without libtraceevent-dev, breaks. Turning everything off was the only way I > found around that. > Would it make sense to add such a mode to perf instead of MINIMAL=1? A > missing > library would disable its feature with a warning rather than fail the build, > and the mode could skip shellcheck, mypy and pylint too. allmodconfig would > then build as much of perf as the host allows. Alternatively using: acme@number:~/git/perf-tools-next$ make -C tools/perf help make: Entering directory '/home/acme/git/perf-tools-next/tools/perf' BUILD: Doing 'make -j32' parallel build Perf make targets: doc - make *all* documentation (see below) man - make manpage documentation (access with man <foo>) html - make html documentation info - make GNU info documentation (access with info <foo>) pdf - make pdf documentation TAGS - use etags to make tag information for source browsing tags - use ctags to make tag information for source browsing cscope - use cscope to make interactive browsing database Perf install targets: NOTE: documentation build requires asciidoc, xmlto packages to be installed HINT: use "prefix" or "DESTDIR" to install to a particular path like "make prefix=/usr/local install install-doc" install - install compiled binaries install-build-deps - install the development packages needed to build install-doc - install *all* documentation install-man - install manpage documentation install-html - install html documentation install-info - install GNU info documentation install-pdf - install pdf documentation quick-install-doc - alias for quick-install-man quick-install-man - install the documentation quickly quick-install-html - install the html documentation quickly Perf maintainer targets: clean - clean all binary objects and build output make: Leaving directory '/home/acme/git/perf-tools-next/tools/perf' acme@number:~/git/perf-tools-next$ Why is that difficult to run: make -C tools/perf install-build-deps To do a recommended perf build deps install? That would be useful as it is what we expect users to do. If that is too difficult, for some reason, there is a minimal build in tools/perf/tests/make, that is tested since forever: # all the NO_* variable combined make_minimal := NO_PYTHON_MODULE=1 make_minimal += NO_DEMANGLE=1 NO_LIBELF=1 NO_BACKTRACE=1 make_minimal += NO_LIBNUMA=1 NO_LIBBIONIC=1 NO_LIBDW=1 make_minimal += NO_LIBBPF=1 make_minimal += NO_SDT=1 NO_JVMTI=1 NO_LIBZSTD=1 make_minimal += NO_CAPSTONE=1 - Arnaldo
