tldr; Just FYI, I'm carrying this on the perf tools tree.
Full explanation:
There used to be no copies, with tools/ code using kernel headers
directly. From time to time tools/perf/ broke due to legitimate kernel
hacking. At some point Linus complained about such direct usage. Then we
adopted the current model.
The way these headers are used in perf are not restricted to just
including them to compile something.
There are sometimes used in scripts that convert defines into string
tables, etc, so some change may break one of these scripts, or new MSRs
may use some different #define pattern, etc.
E.g.:
$ ls -1 tools/perf/trace/beauty/*.sh | head -5
tools/perf/trace/beauty/arch_errno_names.sh
tools/perf/trace/beauty/drm_ioctl.sh
tools/perf/trace/beauty/fadvise.sh
tools/perf/trace/beauty/fsconfig.sh
tools/perf/trace/beauty/fsmount.sh
$
$ tools/perf/trace/beauty/fadvise.sh
static const char *fadvise_advices[] = {
[0] = "NORMAL",
[1] = "RANDOM",
[2] = "SEQUENTIAL",
[3] = "WILLNEED",
[4] = "DONTNEED",
[5] = "NOREUSE",
};
$
The tools/perf/check-headers.sh script, part of the tools/ build
process, points out changes in the original files.
So its important not to touch the copies in tools/ when doing changes in
the original kernel headers, that will be done later, when
check-headers.sh inform about the change to the perf tools hackers.
Cc: Eric Biggers <[email protected]>
Cc: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <[email protected]>
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
---
tools/include/uapi/linux/fscrypt.h | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools/include/uapi/linux/fscrypt.h b/tools/include/uapi/linux/fscrypt.h
index fd1fb0d5389d..7a8f4c290187 100644
--- a/tools/include/uapi/linux/fscrypt.h
+++ b/tools/include/uapi/linux/fscrypt.h
@@ -71,7 +71,8 @@ struct fscrypt_policy_v2 {
__u8 contents_encryption_mode;
__u8 filenames_encryption_mode;
__u8 flags;
- __u8 __reserved[4];
+ __u8 log2_data_unit_size;
+ __u8 __reserved[3];
__u8 master_key_identifier[FSCRYPT_KEY_IDENTIFIER_SIZE];
};
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