The new QorIQ SDK based on Zeus is being prepared and plan to be available in June, we will port the perf patch in this release.


Best Regards,

Zhenhua

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From: meta-freescale@... <meta-
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Sent: Monday, April 27, 2020 3:00 PM
To: leimaohui <leimaohui@...>
Cc: meta-freescale@...
Subject: Re: [meta-freescale] a bug of perf

On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 8:54 AM leimaohui <leimaohui@...> wrote:

Hi,

I met perf bug by meta-freescale as following:
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tmp/work/armv8-linux/perf/1.0-r9/perf-1.0/perf-in.o: in function

`find_address_in_section':

| /usr/src/debug/perf/1.0-r9/perf-1.0/tools/perf/util/srcline.c:200: undefined

reference to `bfd_get_section_flags'

perf/1.0-r9/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/bin/aarch64-linux/../../libexec/aarch64-

linux/gcc/aarch64-linux/9.3.0/ld: /usr/src/debug/perf/1.0-r9/perf-
1.0/tools/perf/util/srcline.c:204: undefined reference to `bfd_get_section_vma'

I found that this bug has been fixed in upstream:
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commit f4d7dbafb103e4f782323017c239c548871c1567
Author: Changbin Du <changbin.du@...>
Date: Tue Jan 28 23:29:38 2020 +0800

perf: Make perf able to build with latest libbfd

libbfd has changed the bfd_section_* macros to inline functions
bfd_section_<field> since 2019-09-18. See below two commits:
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This fix make perf able to build with both old and new libbfd.

Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@...>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...>
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Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...>
Signed-off-by: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@...>

tools/perf/util/srcline.c | 16 +++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

I want to know when linux-qoriq will be updated next time?

I have this patch ported to linux-imx kernel [1], probably you should do the same
for linux-qoriq. Try to add it into the recipe and if it would work out - send a PR.

Best regards
Lei Maohui

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Regards,
Andrey.