[PATCH v1 0/7] Refactor perf python module build

[James Clark]

On 13/06/2024 15:15, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 10:27:15AM +0100, James Clark wrote:
>> On 12/06/2024 19:31, Ian Rogers wrote:
>>> Refactor the perf python module build to instead of building C files
>>> it links libraries. To support this make static libraries for tests,
>>> ui, util and pmu-events. Doing this allows fewer functions to be
>>> stubbed out, importantly parse_events is no longer stubbed out which
>>> will improve the ability to work with heterogeneous cores.
>>>
>>> Patches 1 to 5 add static libraries for existing parts of the perf
>>> build.
>>>
>>> Patch 6 adds the python build using libraries rather than C source
>>> files.
>>>
>>> Patch 7 cleans up the python dependencies and removes the no longer
>>> needed python-ext-sources.
>>>
>>
>> Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark at arm.com>
>>
>> It does require a clean build to avoid some -fPIC errors presumably
>> because not everything that requires it gets rebuilt, for anyone who
>> gets stuck on that.
> 
> We need to find a way to avoid requiring the 'make clean' :-/
> 
> - Arnaldo
>  

Do we need to make it so that if any of the Makefiles are touched it
does a clean? I'm assuming that was the cause of the issue I experienced
here and that the Makefile and/or Build files aren't mentioned as
dependencies of any target.

>>> Ian Rogers (7):
>>>   perf ui: Make ui its own library
>>>   perf pmu-events: Make pmu-events a library
>>>   perf test: Make tests its own library
>>>   perf bench: Make bench its own library
>>>   perf util: Make util its own library
>>>   perf python: Switch module to linking libraries from building source
>>>   perf python: Clean up build dependencies
>>>
>>>  tools/perf/Build                              |  14 +-
>>>  tools/perf/Makefile.config                    |   5 +
>>>  tools/perf/Makefile.perf                      |  66 ++-
>>>  tools/perf/arch/Build                         |   4 +-
>>>  tools/perf/arch/arm/Build                     |   4 +-
>>>  tools/perf/arch/arm/tests/Build               |   8 +-
>>>  tools/perf/arch/arm/util/Build                |  10 +-
>>>  tools/perf/arch/arm64/Build                   |   4 +-
>>>  tools/perf/arch/arm64/tests/Build             |   8 +-
>>>  tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/Build              |  20 +-
>>>  tools/perf/arch/csky/Build                    |   2 +-
>>>  tools/perf/arch/csky/util/Build               |   6 +-
>>>  tools/perf/arch/loongarch/Build               |   2 +-
>>>  tools/perf/arch/loongarch/util/Build          |   8 +-
>>>  tools/perf/arch/mips/Build                    |   2 +-
>>>  tools/perf/arch/mips/util/Build               |   6 +-
>>>  tools/perf/arch/powerpc/Build                 |   4 +-
>>>  tools/perf/arch/powerpc/tests/Build           |   6 +-
>>>  tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/Build            |  24 +-
>>>  tools/perf/arch/riscv/Build                   |   2 +-
>>>  tools/perf/arch/riscv/util/Build              |   8 +-
>>>  tools/perf/arch/s390/Build                    |   2 +-
>>>  tools/perf/arch/s390/util/Build               |  16 +-
>>>  tools/perf/arch/sh/Build                      |   2 +-
>>>  tools/perf/arch/sh/util/Build                 |   2 +-
>>>  tools/perf/arch/sparc/Build                   |   2 +-
>>>  tools/perf/arch/sparc/util/Build              |   2 +-
>>>  tools/perf/arch/x86/Build                     |   6 +-
>>>  tools/perf/arch/x86/tests/Build               |  20 +-
>>>  tools/perf/arch/x86/util/Build                |  42 +-
>>>  tools/perf/bench/Build                        |  46 +-
>>>  tools/perf/scripts/Build                      |   4 +-
>>>  tools/perf/scripts/perl/Perf-Trace-Util/Build |   2 +-
>>>  .../perf/scripts/python/Perf-Trace-Util/Build |   2 +-
>>>  tools/perf/tests/Build                        | 140 +++----
>>>  tools/perf/tests/workloads/Build              |  12 +-
>>>  tools/perf/ui/Build                           |  18 +-
>>>  tools/perf/ui/browsers/Build                  |  14 +-
>>>  tools/perf/ui/tui/Build                       |   8 +-
>>>  tools/perf/util/Build                         | 394 +++++++++---------
>>>  tools/perf/util/arm-spe-decoder/Build         |   2 +-
>>>  tools/perf/util/cs-etm-decoder/Build          |   2 +-
>>>  tools/perf/util/hisi-ptt-decoder/Build        |   2 +-
>>>  tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/Build        |   2 +-
>>>  tools/perf/util/perf-regs-arch/Build          |  18 +-
>>>  tools/perf/util/python-ext-sources            |  53 ---
>>>  tools/perf/util/python.c                      | 271 +++++-------
>>>  tools/perf/util/scripting-engines/Build       |   4 +-
>>>  tools/perf/util/setup.py                      |  33 +-
>>>  49 files changed, 612 insertions(+), 722 deletions(-)
>>>  delete mode 100644 tools/perf/util/python-ext-sources
>>>