2022-07-13 18:59:49

by Andrii Nakryiko

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Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next 2/3] tools: runqslower: build and use lightweight bootstrap version of bpftool

On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 7:37 PM Pu Lehui <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> tools/runqslower use bpftool for vmlinux.h, skeleton, and static linking
> only. So we can use lightweight bootstrap version of bpftool to handle
> these, and it will be faster.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pu Lehui <[email protected]>
> Suggested-by: Andrii Nakryiko <[email protected]>
> ---
> tools/bpf/runqslower/Makefile | 10 ++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/bpf/runqslower/Makefile b/tools/bpf/runqslower/Makefile
> index da6de16a3dfb..8900c74f29e2 100644
> --- a/tools/bpf/runqslower/Makefile
> +++ b/tools/bpf/runqslower/Makefile
> @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ include ../../scripts/Makefile.include
> OUTPUT ?= $(abspath .output)/
>
> BPFTOOL_OUTPUT := $(OUTPUT)bpftool/
> -DEFAULT_BPFTOOL := $(BPFTOOL_OUTPUT)bpftool
> +DEFAULT_BPFTOOL := $(BPFTOOL_OUTPUT)bootstrap/bpftool
> BPFTOOL ?= $(DEFAULT_BPFTOOL)
> LIBBPF_SRC := $(abspath ../../lib/bpf)
> BPFOBJ_OUTPUT := $(OUTPUT)libbpf/
> @@ -86,6 +86,12 @@ $(BPFOBJ): $(wildcard $(LIBBPF_SRC)/*.[ch] $(LIBBPF_SRC)/Makefile) | $(BPFOBJ_OU
> $(Q)$(MAKE) $(submake_extras) -C $(LIBBPF_SRC) OUTPUT=$(BPFOBJ_OUTPUT) \
> DESTDIR=$(BPFOBJ_OUTPUT) prefix= $(abspath $@) install_headers
>
> +ifeq ($(CROSS_COMPILE),)
> $(DEFAULT_BPFTOOL): $(BPFOBJ) | $(BPFTOOL_OUTPUT)
> $(Q)$(MAKE) $(submake_extras) -C ../bpftool OUTPUT=$(BPFTOOL_OUTPUT) \
> - ARCH= CROSS_COMPILE= CC=$(HOSTCC) LD=$(HOSTLD)
> + LIBBPF_BOOTSTRAP_OUTPUT=$(BPFOBJ_OUTPUT) \
> + LIBBPF_BOOTSTRAP_DESTDIR=$(BPF_DESTDIR) bootstrap
> +else
> +$(DEFAULT_BPFTOOL): | $(BPFTOOL_OUTPUT)
> + $(Q)$(MAKE) $(submake_extras) -C ../bpftool OUTPUT=$(BPFTOOL_OUTPUT) bootstrap
> +endif

Same comment as on the other patch, this CROSS_COMPILE if/else seems a
bit fragile, let's keep only the second cleaner part, maybe?


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> 2.25.1
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