Re: [PATCH 1/3] perf: Add capability-related utilities

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Wed Jul 17 2019 - 19:47:01 EST


Em Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 06:05:51PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
> Em Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 10:46:43AM +0200, Jiri Olsa escreveu:
> > On Tue, Jul 02, 2019 at 08:10:03PM -0400, Igor Lubashev wrote:
> > > Add utilities to help checking capabilities of the running process.
> > > Make perf link with libcap.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Igor Lubashev <ilubashe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > tools/perf/Makefile.config | 2 +-
> > > tools/perf/util/Build | 1 +
> > > tools/perf/util/cap.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > > tools/perf/util/cap.h | 10 ++++++++++
> > > tools/perf/util/event.h | 1 +
> > > tools/perf/util/python-ext-sources | 1 +
> > > tools/perf/util/util.c | 9 +++++++++
> > > 7 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/cap.c
> > > create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/cap.h
> > >
> > > diff --git a/tools/perf/Makefile.config b/tools/perf/Makefile.config
> > > index 85fbcd265351..21470a50ed39 100644
> > > --- a/tools/perf/Makefile.config
> > > +++ b/tools/perf/Makefile.config
> > > @@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ CXXFLAGS += -Wno-strict-aliasing
> > > # adding assembler files missing the .GNU-stack linker note.
> > > LDFLAGS += -Wl,-z,noexecstack
> > >
> > > -EXTLIBS = -lpthread -lrt -lm -ldl
> > > +EXTLIBS = -lpthread -lrt -lm -ldl -lcap
> >
> > I wonder we should detect libcap or it's everywhere.. Arnaldo's compile test suite might tell
>
> I'll add this tentatively and try to build it in my test suite.

So, not even in my notebook this worked straight away:

CC /tmp/build/perf/util/cap.o
CC /tmp/build/perf/util/config.o
In file included from util/cap.c:5:
util/cap.h:6:10: fatal error: sys/capability.h: No such file or directory
6 | #include <sys/capability.h>
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
mv: cannot stat '/tmp/build/perf/util/.cap.o.tmp': No such file or directory


I had to first do:

dnf install libcap-devel

So we need to have a feature test and fail if that is not installed,
i.e. libcap becomes a hard req for building perf, which I think is
reasonable, one more shouldn't hurt, right?

With all the features enabled:

[acme@quaco perf]$ ldd ~/bin/perf
linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffe7278a000)
libunwind-x86_64.so.8 => /lib64/libunwind-x86_64.so.8 (0x00007f7be52f1000)
libunwind.so.8 => /lib64/libunwind.so.8 (0x00007f7be52d7000)
liblzma.so.5 => /lib64/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f7be52ae000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f7be528d000)
librt.so.1 => /lib64/librt.so.1 (0x00007f7be5283000)
libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00007f7be513d000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f7be5135000)
libcap.so.2 => /lib64/libcap.so.2 (0x00007f7be512e000)
libelf.so.1 => /lib64/libelf.so.1 (0x00007f7be5113000)
libdw.so.1 => /lib64/libdw.so.1 (0x00007f7be50c0000)
libslang.so.2 => /lib64/libslang.so.2 (0x00007f7be4de8000)
libperl.so.5.28 => /lib64/libperl.so.5.28 (0x00007f7be4ac2000)
libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007f7be48fa000)
libpython2.7.so.1.0 => /lib64/libpython2.7.so.1.0 (0x00007f7be4690000)
libz.so.1 => /lib64/libz.so.1 (0x00007f7be4676000)
libzstd.so.1 => /lib64/libzstd.so.1 (0x00007f7be45d1000)
libnuma.so.1 => /lib64/libnuma.so.1 (0x00007f7be45c3000)
libbabeltrace-ctf.so.1 => /lib64/libbabeltrace-ctf.so.1 (0x00007f7be456d000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f7be4551000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f7be5331000)
libbz2.so.1 => /lib64/libbz2.so.1 (0x00007f7be453d000)
libcrypt.so.2 => /lib64/libcrypt.so.2 (0x00007f7be4502000)
libutil.so.1 => /lib64/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f7be44fd000)
libbabeltrace.so.1 => /lib64/libbabeltrace.so.1 (0x00007f7be44ed000)
libpopt.so.0 => /lib64/libpopt.so.0 (0x00007f7be44dd000)
libuuid.so.1 => /lib64/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f7be44d3000)
libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /lib64/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f7be44cd000)
libglib-2.0.so.0 => /lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f7be43a9000)
libpcre.so.1 => /lib64/libpcre.so.1 (0x00007f7be4335000)
[acme@quaco perf]$

;-)

So, please check tools/build/feature/ and check how this is done and add
a test and the warning in tools/perf/Makefile.config so that we get an
error message stating that libcap-dev or libcap-devel should be
installed.

I'll do it if there is any difficulty, just not right now as I'm busy
and want to get a pull req out of the door.

- Arnaldo