On 04/27/2018 10:00 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 10:28:27AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> [adding some Cc:]
>>
>> On 04/14/2018 02:41 AM, Teck Choon Giam wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Compile linux-4.9.94 will have error related to KMOD_DECOMP_LEN
>>> undeclared. Searching string related to KMOD_DECOMP_LEN in
>>> linux-4.9.94 and linux-4.15.17 sources as below:
>>>
>>> <mock-chroot>sh-4.2# grep -r KMOD_DECOMP_LEN ./linux-4.15.17
>>> ./linux-4.15.17/tools/perf/tests/code-reading.c: char
>>> decomp_name[KMOD_DECOMP_LEN];
>>> ./linux-4.15.17/tools/perf/util/dso.h:#define KMOD_DECOMP_LEN
>>> sizeof(KMOD_DECOMP_NAME)
>>> ./linux-4.15.17/tools/perf/util/annotate.c: char tmp[KMOD_DECOMP_LEN];
>>> ./linux-4.15.17/tools/perf/util/dso.c: char newpath[KMOD_DECOMP_LEN];
>>> sh-4.2# grep -r KMOD_DECOMP_LEN ./linux-4.9.94
>>> ./linux-4.9.94/tools/perf/tests/code-reading.c: char
>>> decomp_name[KMOD_DECOMP_LEN];
>>> ./linux-4.9.94/tools/perf/util/dso.c: char newpath[KMOD_DECOMP_LEN];
>>>
>>> So I guess for linux-4.9.94 has not define KMOD_DECOMP_LEN in
>>> tools/perf/util/dso.h?
>>
>>
>> 4.9.9[456] lack:
>> #define KMOD_DECOMP_NAME "/tmp/perf-kmod-XXXXXX"
>> #define KMOD_DECOMP_LEN sizeof(KMOD_DECOMP_NAME)
>>
>>
>> However, the commit that added those macros does not apply cleanly to 4.9.96.
>>
>> commit 42b3fa670825983fc8bd0ac7b80cc84ae3abb75b
>> Author: Namhyung Kim <namhy...@kernel.org>
>> Date: Thu Jun 8 16:31:03 2017 +0900
>>
>> perf tools: Introduce dso__decompress_kmodule_{fd,path}
>
> This should now be fixed in the latest 4.9.y -rc release, right?
>
> If not, please let me know as I though I resolved this problem there...
It still fails in 4.9.96. (not #defined there)
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~Randy
