Re: [GIT PULL] perf changes for v4.8

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Jul 26 2016 - 02:38:40 EST



* Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Linus,
>
> On Mon, 25 Jul 2016 14:45:53 -0700 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 2:21 PM, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Actually, the perf tree on its own was enough to trigger the build
> > > problem, the luto-next tree was just what initially triggered the build
> > > failure in linux-next (I guess there is some missing dependency).
> > > After the build failed, I started including the perf tree directly
> > > before the tip tree and the build would fail when I merged that ...
> >
> > Ugh. It's merged in my tree now, because I thought it was ok. Can
> > somebody point me to the fix?
>
> I only affects cross building of the objtool and vdso2c tools (which is
> how I work). The latest version of the perf/core branch in the tip
> tree now has all the fixes, so I assume that Ingo will send another
> pull request.

Yes, I'll send this ASAP.

> Unfortunately, that means that your tree is broken for me this
> morning ... but I will cope, I guess.

That's weird, I pushed out the fix from Arnaldo yesterday (about 8 hours ago)
which should merge fine with Linus's tree and make your tooling combination work.

Thanks,

Ingo