Hongxu Jia d4bc9704a5 perf: fix do_compile failure with /tmp mounted with noexec ...

On a builder which has /tmp mounted nexec, the ARM64 generation of
the sycall table will fail:
[snip]
|perf-1.0/tools/perf/arch/arm64/entry/syscalls//mksyscalltbl:
/tmp/create-table-6VGPSt: Permission denied
[snip]

To avoid the permission denied error, we must instruct the perf build
to place temporary files in an appropriate directory (versus always
using /tmp). To do this, we need both a kernel source change to perf,
and a recipe change to pass the temp directory in by a TMPDIR variable.

The linux-yocto has a reference kernel change: [perf arm64: Fix generate
system call table failed with /tmp mounted with noexec], that has also
been submitted upstream mailing list linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org

(From OE-Core rev: d819e7fa76e2b732aa7c33ab0e9a834781090824)

Signed-off-by: Hongxu Jia <hongxu.jia@windriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

2018-10-20 22:40:16 +01:00

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perf-perl.inc

perf: do not pull in any perl dependencies unless scripting is requested

2018-09-13 17:38:07 +01:00

perf.bb

perf: fix do_compile failure with /tmp mounted with noexec

2018-10-20 22:40:16 +01:00