Re: [RFC] perf build: Allow passing extra Clang flags via EXTRA_CLANG_FLAGS

[hupu]

Hi Leo,
Thank you for your reply.

On Tue, Oct 14, 2025 at 12:14 AM Leo Yan <leo.yan@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2025 at 08:46:01AM -0700, Ian Rogers wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 13, 2025 at 1:08 AM hupu <hupu.gm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Maintainer,
> > >
> > > I encountered some issues while cross-compiling perf (ARCH=arm64),
> > > particularly when enabling the BPF option. During the build, Clang
> > > fails to compile BPF programs due to missing header files. The
> > > relevant error messages are as follows:
> >
> > Thanks for reporting this issue! There has been some recent work in
> > this area by Leo:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20251006-perf_build_android_ndk-v3-0-4305590795b2@xxxxxxx/
> > The patches are in Linux v6.18-rc1. Perhaps you could try repeating
> > your build with this tree and reporting issues?
>
> I am not 100% sure, could you execute install kernel headers and then
> build perf ?
>
>   make headers_install
>

I am currently building perf for arm64 in an Ubuntu environment using
a cross toolchain, rather than compiling the entire perf directly with
Clang. Clang is only invoked during the build process when the BPF
option is enabled — as shown below where bpf is detected as on:

Auto-detecting system features:
...                                   libdw: [ on  ]
...                                   glibc: [ on  ]
...                                  libelf: [ on  ]
...                                 libnuma: [ on  ]
...                  numa_num_possible_cpus: [ on  ]
...                               libpython: [ OFF ]
...                             libcapstone: [ on  ]
...                               llvm-perf: [ OFF ]
...                                    zlib: [ on  ]
...                                    lzma: [ on  ]
...                               get_cpuid: [ OFF ]
...                                     bpf: [ on  ]
...                                  libaio: [ on  ]
...                                 libzstd: [ on  ]


I have already run the following command and successfully installed
the related headers, but the same error still occurs when building
perf. I am not sure if I also need to specify additional parameters
during the build process to ensure these headers can be found
correctly?

    make ARCH=arm64 headers_install

Please let me know if you need any more details or testing.


Thanks,
hupu