Re: [BUG] perf tools: Build failure in v6.16-rc1
From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Date: Wed Jun 11 2025 - 05:25:55 EST
On 2025-06-10 11:34:44 [-0700], Namhyung Kim wrote:
> Hello,
Hi,
> I've updated the perf-tools-next to v6.16-rc1 and found a build error
> like below on alpine linux 3.18.
>
> In file included from bench/futex.c:6:
> /usr/include/sys/prctl.h:88:8: error: redefinition of 'struct prctl_mm_map'
> 88 | struct prctl_mm_map {
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~
> In file included from bench/futex.c:5:
> /linux/tools/include/uapi/linux/prctl.h:134:8: note: originally defined here
> 134 | struct prctl_mm_map {
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~
> make[4]: *** [/linux/tools/build/Makefile.build:86: /build/bench/futex.o] Error 1
>
> git bisect says it's the first commit introduced the failure.
Hmm. So your /usr/include/sys/prctl.h and
/linux/tools/include/uapi/linux/prctl.h both provide struct
prctl_mm_map but their include guard must be different.
My /usr/include/sys/prctl.h is provided by glibc and contains the
prctl() declaration. It includes also linux/prctl.h.
The tools/include/uapi/linux/prctl.h is the same as
/usr/include/linux/prctl.h.
The /usr/include/sys/prctl.h on alpine linux is different. This is
probably coming from musl. It contains the PR_* definition and the
prctl() declaration. So it clashes here because now the one struct is
available twice.
The man page for prctl(2) says:
| #include <linux/prctl.h> /* Definition of PR_* constants */
| #include <sys/prctl.h>
so musl doesn't follow this.
To align with the other builds, I guess the following help:
diff --git a/tools/perf/bench/futex.c b/tools/perf/bench/futex.c
index 26382e4d8d4ce..540261f299b1d 100644
--- a/tools/perf/bench/futex.c
+++ b/tools/perf/bench/futex.c
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
#include <err.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
-#include <linux/prctl.h>
#include <sys/prctl.h>
#include "futex.h"
Sebastian