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From:   John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] perf tools: Fix empty version number when building
 outside of a git repo
To:     Will Chandler <wfc@wfchandler.org>, <peterz@infradead.org>,
        <mingo@redhat.com>, <acme@kernel.org>, <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
        <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>, <jolsa@kernel.org>,
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On 30/09/2022 16:11, Will Chandler wrote:
> When perf is built in a full source tree that is not a git repository,
> e.g. from a kernel source tarball, `perf version` will print empty tag
> and commit strings:
> 
>    $ perf version
>    perf version
> 
> Currently the tag version is only generated from the root Makefile when
> building in a git repository. If PERF-VERSION-FILE has not been
> generated and the source tree is not in a git repository, then
> PERF-VERSION-GEN will return an empty version.
> 
> The problem can be reproduced with the following steps:
> 
>    $ wget https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/t/linux-6.0-rc7.tar.gz
>    $ tar -xf linux-6.0-rc7.tar.gz && cd linux-6.0-rc7
>    $ make -C tools/perf
>    $ tools/perf/perf -v
>    perf version
> 
> Builds from tarballs generated with `make perf-tar-src-pkg` are not
> impacted by this issue as PERF-VERSION-FILE is included in the archive.
> 
> The perf RPM provided by Fedora for 5.18+ is experiencing this problem.
> Package build logs[0] show that the build is attempting to fall back on
> PERF-VERSION-FILE, but it is not present.
> 
> To resolve this, revert back to the previous logic of using the kernel
> Makefile version if not in a git repository and PERF-VERSION-FILE does
> not exist.
> 
> [0] https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/kernel-tools/5.19.4/200.fc36/data/logs/x86_64/build.log
> 
> Fixes: 7572733b8499 ("perf tools: Fix version kernel tag, 2022-02-21")
> Signed-off-by: Will Chandler <wfc@wfchandler.org>

This looks fine, thanks.

Reviewed-by: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>

> ---
> Range-diff against v1:
> 1:  8195a5ccd82d < -:  ------------ perf tools: Fix empty version number when building outside of a git repo
> -:  ------------ > 1:  a3beccdab700 perf tools: Fix empty version number when building outside of a git repo
> 
>   tools/perf/util/PERF-VERSION-GEN | 10 ++++++++--
>   1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/PERF-VERSION-GEN b/tools/perf/util/PERF-VERSION-GEN
> index 0ee5af529238..3cc42821d9b3 100755
> --- a/tools/perf/util/PERF-VERSION-GEN
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/PERF-VERSION-GEN
> @@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ LF='
>   '
>   
>   #
> -# Always try first to get the version from the kernel Makefile
> +# Use version from kernel Makefile unless not in a git repository and
> +# PERF-VERSION-FILE exists
>   #
>   CID=
>   TAG=
> @@ -19,9 +20,14 @@ if test -d ../../.git -o -f ../../.git
>   then
>   	TAG=$(MAKEFLAGS= make -sC ../.. kernelversion)
>   	CID=$(git log -1 --abbrev=12 --pretty=format:"%h" 2>/dev/null) && CID="-g$CID"
> -else
> +elif test -f ../../PERF-VERSION-FILE
> +then
>   	TAG=$(cut -d' ' -f3 ../../PERF-VERSION-FILE | sed -e 's/\"//g')
>   fi
> +if test -z "$TAG"
> +then
> +	TAG=$(MAKEFLAGS= make -sC ../.. kernelversion)
> +fi
>   
>   VN="$TAG$CID"
>   if test -n "$CID"