Re: tools: Consolidate types.h

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Wed May 06 2015 - 13:18:04 EST


On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 06:54:00PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I can't build the kernel after "git pull",

You mean, you can't build perf tool...?

>
> In file included from /usr/include/asm/types.h:4,
> from ./tools/include/linux/types.h:9,
> from ./include/uapi/linux/elf.h:4,
> from arch/x86/vdso/vdso2c.c:66:
> ./include/uapi/asm-generic/int-ll64.h:11:29: error: asm/bitsperlong.h: No such file or directory
>
> I am not 100% sure but it seems that this was broken by
> d944c4eebcf4c0d5e5d9728fec110cbf0047ad7f "tools: Consolidate types.h"
>
> Don't we need the patch below? Or should I finally update my (very old)
> distro which doesn't have /usr/include/asm/bitsperlong.h ?
>
> Oleg.
>
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/vdso/Makefile b/arch/x86/vdso/Makefile
> index 275a3a8..e970320 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/vdso/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/x86/vdso/Makefile
> @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ VDSO_LDFLAGS_vdso.lds = -m64 -Wl,-soname=linux-vdso.so.1 \
> $(obj)/vdso64.so.dbg: $(src)/vdso.lds $(vobjs) FORCE
> $(call if_changed,vdso)
>
> -HOST_EXTRACFLAGS += -I$(srctree)/tools/include -I$(srctree)/include/uapi
> +HOST_EXTRACFLAGS += -I$(srctree)/tools/include -I$(srctree)/include/uapi -I$(srctree)/arch/x86/include/uapi

Do you have kernel-headers installed on your distro? That's
basically those uapi headers packaged separately. There's also "make
headers_install" which should probably do that (haven't tried it
though).

--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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