Adding file describing the basics of perf build process. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Alexis Berlemont <[email protected]> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Cc: Corey Ashford <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]> --- tools/perf/Documentation/Build.txt | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 49 insertions(+) create mode 100644 tools/perf/Documentation/Build.txt
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/Build.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/Build.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..f6fc6507ba55 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/Build.txt @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ + +1) perf build +============= +The perf build process consists of several separated building blocks, +which are linked together to form the perf binary: + - libperf library (static) + - perf builtin commands + - traceevent library (static) + - GTK ui library + +Several makefiles govern the perf build: + + - Makefile + top level Makefile working as a wrapper that calls the main + Makefile.perf with a -j option to do parallel builds. + + - Makefile.perf + main makefile that triggers build of all perf objects including + installation and documentation processing. + + - tools/build/Makefile.build + main makefile of the build framework + + - tools/build/Build.include + build framework generic definitions + + - Build makefiles + makefiles that defines build objects + +Please refer to tools/build/Documentation/Build.txt for more +information about build framework. + + +2) perf build +============= +The Makefile.perf triggers the build framework for build objects: + perf, libperf, gtk + +resulting in following objects: + $ ls *-in.o + gtk-in.o libperf-in.o perf-in.o + +Those objects are then used in final linking: + libperf-gtk.so <- gtk-in.o libperf-in.o + perf <- perf-in.o libperf-in.o + + +NOTE this description is omitting other libraries involved, only + focusing on build framework outcomes -- 1.9.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
