[PATCH v3 0/6] perf tool: Build dependency tidy up
From: Ian Rogers
Date: Wed Sep 02 2026 - 12:05:27 EST
In doing some work on bazel building of perf (bazel being stricter on
how header files are used), rather than just making the bazel BUILD
files more generous in how they accept header file issues like
transitive dependencies it felt cleaner to address them. These patches
tackle the most severe issues such as cache.h pulling in UI code,
hist.h bringing in UI code, unused header files, transitive
dependencies, etc.
While cleaning up the dependencies in perf.c, change how missing
commands are handled to give a more meaningful error message at run
time about missing build time dependencies.
v1 and v2 were previously sent just addressing the cache.h issue:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-perf-users/20260828222045.1314766-1-irogers@xxxxxxxxxx/
Ian Rogers (6):
perf tool: Remove util/cache.h
perf tool: Tidy up util/cache.h header file users
perf tool: Remove unused includes in perf.c
perf tool: Move usage strings and functions to perf.c
perf tool: Add fallback stubs for missing dependencies
perf hist: Remove keysym.h include from hist.h
tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c | 57 +++++++++------
tools/perf/builtin-c2c.c | 1 +
tools/perf/builtin-config.c | 18 +++--
tools/perf/builtin-help.c | 30 ++++----
tools/perf/builtin-kvm.c | 1 +
tools/perf/builtin-report.c | 1 +
tools/perf/builtin-top.c | 1 +
tools/perf/builtin.h | 3 +
tools/perf/perf.c | 114 ++++++++++++++++++-----------
tools/perf/ui/browsers/annotate.c | 1 +
tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c | 1 +
tools/perf/ui/browsers/scripts.c | 1 +
tools/perf/ui/libslang.h | 2 +
tools/perf/util/Build | 1 -
tools/perf/util/cache.h | 31 --------
tools/perf/util/config.c | 38 ++++++----
tools/perf/util/help-unknown-cmd.c | 15 +++-
tools/perf/util/hist.h | 6 --
tools/perf/util/path.c | 10 +--
tools/perf/util/path.h | 6 +-
tools/perf/util/strbuf.c | 14 ++--
tools/perf/util/usage.c | 34 ---------
tools/perf/util/util.h | 4 -
23 files changed, 194 insertions(+), 196 deletions(-)
delete mode 100644 tools/perf/util/cache.h
delete mode 100644 tools/perf/util/usage.c
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