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perf build: Encapsulate vmlinux.h and bpftool in bpf_skel.mak
authorIan Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Mon, 18 May 2026 15:46:30 +0000 (08:46 -0700)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Wed, 20 May 2026 20:46:45 +0000 (17:46 -0300)
commit9798ac0128daf35cb52ca648b1d93f0d40bd0cf5
tree1d13e9a773dd1bbbb1749279fcad28039f464177
parent713eeb2279402758bbfba301be6fae62c729b34e
perf build: Encapsulate vmlinux.h and bpftool in bpf_skel.mak

Currently, bpftool and vmlinux.h are prerequisites of the top-level
prepare target in Makefile.perf. This unnecessarily blocks the massive
parallel C compilation of libraries (perf-util, perf-ui, pmu-events) during
the initial startup phase.

Move all bpftool and vmlinux.h generation rules down into
tools/perf/bpf_skel.mak to encapsulate BPF tooling completely within the
skeleton framework. Remove them entirely from prepare to unblock immediate
parallel build execution.

To prevent parallel sub-makes (perf-util and perf-bench) from racing to
build shared prerequisites concurrently, while maintaining strict directory
encapsulation without top-level inclusions, serialize bench after the util
static archive finishes using an order-only prerequisite:
  $(LIBPERF_BENCH_IN): FORCE prepare | $(LIBPERF_UTIL)

Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Assisted-by: Gemini:gemini-3.1-pro-preview
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com>
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Cc: Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@oracle.com>
Cc: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@gmail.com>
Cc: Costa Shulyupin <costa.shul@redhat.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Cc: Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
Cc: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Cc: Howard Chu <howardchu95@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
Cc: Markus Mayer <mmayer@broadcom.com>
Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@linux.dev>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org>
Cc: Ricky Ringler <ricky.ringler@proton.me>
Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Cc: Swapnil Sapkal <swapnil.sapkal@amd.com>
Cc: Thomas Falcon <thomas.falcon@intel.com>
Cc: Tomas Glozar <tglozar@redhat.com>
Cc: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/Makefile.config
tools/perf/Makefile.perf
tools/perf/bpf_skel.mak