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tools/perf: Update tools's copy of mips syscall table
authorNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Tue, 21 Nov 2023 22:56:49 +0000 (14:56 -0800)
committerNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Wed, 22 Nov 2023 18:57:47 +0000 (10:57 -0800)
commit027905fe5baec70a00e00890e982d035d6c8b6b3
treeac8435b94c3cc986b05dd02ff4cf473c93321022
parentd3968c974a2453de9289bdb9d34130b2ce323628
tools/perf: Update tools's copy of mips syscall table

tldr; Just FYI, I'm carrying this on the perf tools tree.

Full explanation:

There used to be no copies, with tools/ code using kernel headers
directly. From time to time tools/perf/ broke due to legitimate kernel
hacking. At some point Linus complained about such direct usage. Then we
adopted the current model.

The way these headers are used in perf are not restricted to just
including them to compile something.

There are sometimes used in scripts that convert defines into string
tables, etc, so some change may break one of these scripts, or new MSRs
may use some different #define pattern, etc.

E.g.:

  $ ls -1 tools/perf/trace/beauty/*.sh | head -5
  tools/perf/trace/beauty/arch_errno_names.sh
  tools/perf/trace/beauty/drm_ioctl.sh
  tools/perf/trace/beauty/fadvise.sh
  tools/perf/trace/beauty/fsconfig.sh
  tools/perf/trace/beauty/fsmount.sh
  $
  $ tools/perf/trace/beauty/fadvise.sh
  static const char *fadvise_advices[] = {
        [0] = "NORMAL",
        [1] = "RANDOM",
        [2] = "SEQUENTIAL",
        [3] = "WILLNEED",
        [4] = "DONTNEED",
        [5] = "NOREUSE",
  };
  $

The tools/perf/check-headers.sh script, part of the tools/ build
process, points out changes in the original files.

So its important not to touch the copies in tools/ when doing changes in
the original kernel headers, that will be done later, when
check-headers.sh inform about the change to the perf tools hackers.

Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231121225650.390246-14-namhyung@kernel.org
tools/perf/arch/mips/entry/syscalls/syscall_n64.tbl