Build failure of kernel v4.14-rc due to error in tools/perf

From: Akemi Yagi
Date: Fri Sep 22 2017 - 18:14:17 EST


Hi,

The build of kernel v4.14-rc1 for i686 fails on RHEL 6 with the error
in tools/perf:

util/syscalltbl.c:157: error: expected ';', ',' or ')' before '__maybe_unused'
mv: cannot stat `util/.syscalltbl.o.tmp': No such file or directory

This is fixed by placing/moving

#include <linux/compiler.h>

outside of #ifdef HAVE_SYSCALL_TABLE as shown in the patch below.

Thanks,

Akemi Yagi <toracat@xxxxxxxxxx>
2017-09-22

--- a/tools/perf/util/syscalltbl.c 2017-09-16 15:47:51.000000000 -0700
+++ b/tools/perf/util/syscalltbl.c 2017-09-22 00:16:16.119007615 -0700
@@ -15,9 +15,9 @@

#include "syscalltbl.h"
#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <linux/compiler.h>

#ifdef HAVE_SYSCALL_TABLE
-#include <linux/compiler.h>
#include <string.h>
#include "string2.h"
#include "util.h"