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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] perf jevents: Enable warnings through HOSTCFLAGS
To:     Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
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From:   John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
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Date:   Thu, 21 Oct 2021 16:50:09 +0100
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On 21/10/2021 13:48, Jiri Olsa wrote:
>> +HOSTCFLAGS += -Wall
>> +HOSTCFLAGS += -Wextra
>> +
>>   # Enforce a non-executable stack, as we may regress (again) in the future by
>>   # adding assembler files missing the .GNU-stack linker note.
>>   LDFLAGS += -Wl,-z,noexecstack
>> diff --git a/tools/perf/Makefile.perf b/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
>> index 7df13e74450c..118bcdc70bb4 100644
>> --- a/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
>> +++ b/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
>> @@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ else
>>   endif
>>   
>>   export srctree OUTPUT RM CC CXX LD AR CFLAGS CXXFLAGS V BISON FLEX AWK
>> -export HOSTCC HOSTLD HOSTAR
>> +export HOSTCC HOSTLD HOSTAR HOSTCFLAGS
>>   
>>   include $(srctree)/tools/build/Makefile.include
>>   
>> diff --git a/tools/perf/pmu-events/Build b/tools/perf/pmu-events/Build
>> index a055dee6a46a..d5c287f069a2 100644
>> --- a/tools/perf/pmu-events/Build
>> +++ b/tools/perf/pmu-events/Build
>> @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
>>   hostprogs := jevents
>>   
>>   jevents-y	+= json.o jsmn.o jevents.o
>> -HOSTCFLAGS_jevents.o	= -I$(srctree)/tools/include
>> +HOSTCFLAGS_jevents.o	= -I$(srctree)/tools/include $(HOSTCFLAGS)
> so the the host cflags are made of:
> 
> host_c_flags = -Wp,-MD,$(depfile) -Wp,-MT,$@ $(KBUILD_HOSTCFLAGS) -D"BUILD_STR(s)=\#s" $(HOSTCFLAGS_$(basetarget).o) $(HOSTCFLAGS_$(obj))
> 
> can't you use KBUILD_HOSTCFLAGS?

Maybe. However, it seems to be empty when building perf/pmu-events. Even 
in building tools/objtool - which currently references it - it is empty 
AFAICS. I'm not sure if it's being imported properly.

Thanks,
John

> 
> also perhaps we could rename KBUILD_HOSTCFLAGS to HOSTCFLAGS?
> the name seems like leftover from kbuild move