[PATCH v1 0/4] perf parse-regs: Cleanup config and building

[Leo Yan]

Currently, the perf building enables register parsing based on the
target architecture has supported register feature.

Furthermore, the perf building system needs to maintain a variable
'NO_PERF_REGS' and defines macro 'HAVE_PERF_REGS_SUPPORT' for statically
compiling the tool.

As a result, the perf has no flexibilty for parsing register if an
architecture doesn't support it. And the source files use the macro
'HAVE_PERF_REGS_SUPPORT' to switch on and off the register parsing
related code, which is not a good practice.

This series is to remove the static building for register parsing. In
theory, we should can dynamically detect if an arch has support this
feature and functions can return errors when the feature is not
supported.

The first patch is to remove unused build configuration
CONFIG_PERF_REGS.

The second patch is to build perf register functions, without using the
macro 'HAVE_PERF_REGS_SUPPORT' to statically turn on or off code.

The third patch is to introduce a weak function arch__sample_reg_masks(),
this function can allow the target arch to return its sample register
list.  With this change, we can totally remove the macro
'HAVE_PERF_REGS_SUPPORT' in the source file.

The forth patch is to clean up the Makefile for removing relevant
configuration and macro definition, as they are not useful anymore.

I tested this patch set on Arm64 and x86 for building and did a cross
register parsing ('perf record' on Arm64 and 'perf report' on x86).


Leo Yan (4):
  perf build: Remove unused CONFIG_PERF_REGS
  perf parse-regs: Always build perf register functions
  perf parse-regs: Introduce a weak function arch__sample_reg_masks()
  perf build: Cleanup perf register configuration

 tools/perf/Makefile.config                    | 25 --------------
 tools/perf/arch/arm/util/perf_regs.c          |  7 +++-
 tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/machine.c          |  2 ++
 tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/perf_regs.c        |  7 +++-
 tools/perf/arch/csky/util/perf_regs.c         |  7 +++-
 tools/perf/arch/loongarch/util/perf_regs.c    |  7 +++-
 tools/perf/arch/mips/util/perf_regs.c         |  7 +++-
 tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/perf_regs.c      |  7 +++-
 tools/perf/arch/riscv/util/perf_regs.c        |  7 +++-
 tools/perf/arch/s390/util/perf_regs.c         |  7 +++-
 tools/perf/arch/x86/util/perf_regs.c          |  7 +++-
 tools/perf/util/parse-regs-options.c          |  8 ++---
 .../util/perf-regs-arch/perf_regs_aarch64.c   |  4 ---
 .../perf/util/perf-regs-arch/perf_regs_arm.c  |  4 ---
 .../perf/util/perf-regs-arch/perf_regs_csky.c |  4 ---
 .../util/perf-regs-arch/perf_regs_loongarch.c |  4 ---
 .../perf/util/perf-regs-arch/perf_regs_mips.c |  4 ---
 .../util/perf-regs-arch/perf_regs_powerpc.c   |  4 ---
 .../util/perf-regs-arch/perf_regs_riscv.c     |  4 ---
 .../perf/util/perf-regs-arch/perf_regs_s390.c |  4 ---
 .../perf/util/perf-regs-arch/perf_regs_x86.c  |  4 ---
 tools/perf/util/perf_regs.c                   | 11 ++++--
 tools/perf/util/perf_regs.h                   | 34 +------------------
 23 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 112 deletions(-)

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