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tools headers UAPI: Update tools's copy of vhost.h header
authorNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Tue, 21 Nov 2023 22:56:40 +0000 (14:56 -0800)
committerNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Wed, 22 Nov 2023 18:57:46 +0000 (10:57 -0800)
commitdaa97513415525e4d17c4978f3c47a7b7e935b36
tree4195bc8a39f0ffac68662231631d5e48a32301b6
parentfb3648a6a87b674540f0ba7701a353006c408065
tools headers UAPI: Update tools's copy of vhost.h header

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: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux.dev
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231121225650.390246-5-namhyung@kernel.org
tools/include/uapi/linux/vhost.h