[PATCH v2 2/3] perf build: Add -fms-extensions for GEN_VMLINUX_H=1
From: Namhyung Kim
Date: Mon May 04 2026 - 02:30:05 EST
On my system, `make GEN_VMLINUX_H=1` fails with a lot of error messages
like below:
./util/bpf_skel/vmlinux.h:134488:4: error: declaration does not declare anything [-Werror,-Wmissing-declarations]
134488 | struct freelist_counters;
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
make[2]: *** [Makefile.perf:1249: linux/tools/perf/util/bpf_skel/.tmp/lock_contention.bpf.o] Error 1
I saw commit 835a50753579a ("selftests/bpf: Add -fms-extensions to bpf
build flags") also added the same flags to bpf programs.
Cc: bpf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
v2) use -fms-extensions and -Wno-microsoft-anon-tag (Sashiko)
tools/perf/Makefile.perf | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/tools/perf/Makefile.perf b/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
index cee19c923c0607d2..0aba14f22a06f7a6 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
+++ b/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
@@ -1249,6 +1249,7 @@ $(SKEL_TMP_OUT)/%.bpf.o: util/bpf_skel/%.bpf.c $(LIBBPF) $(SKEL_OUT)/vmlinux.h
$(QUIET_CLANG)$(CLANG) -g -O2 -fno-stack-protector --target=bpf \
$(CLANG_OPTIONS) $(EXTRA_BPF_FLAGS) $(BPF_INCLUDE) $(TOOLS_UAPI_INCLUDE) \
-include $(OUTPUT)PERF-VERSION-FILE -include util/bpf_skel/perf_version.h \
+ -fms-extensions -Wno-microsoft-anon-tag \
-c $(filter util/bpf_skel/%.bpf.c,$^) -o $@
$(SKEL_OUT)/%.skel.h: $(SKEL_TMP_OUT)/%.bpf.o | $(BPFTOOL)
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2.53.0