From: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Date: Mon, 18 May 2026 15:46:33 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: perf build: Remove redundant libbpf feature check for static builds
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perf build: Remove redundant libbpf feature check for static builds

By default, the perf tool compiles and statically links against its own
internal copy of libbpf (tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.a), setting LIBBPF_STATIC=1.

Despite this static linkage, Makefile.config unconditionally executed
$(call feature_check,libbpf), which forced a synchronous sub-make fork
during AST parsing to detect dynamic system libbpf libraries.

As noted in the internal Makefile comments, this check was executed purely
so that running `make VF=1` would display the detection status of system
libbpf. During standard builds without LIBBPF_DYNAMIC=1, the detection
result was entirely ignored.

Wrap the libbpf feature check inside LIBBPF_DYNAMIC=1 so Make avoids the
redundant sub-make fork overhead during standard static builds.

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>
---

diff --git a/tools/perf/Makefile.config b/tools/perf/Makefile.config
index 8437c3f72125..26de7528d6ce 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Makefile.config
+++ b/tools/perf/Makefile.config
@@ -575,10 +575,8 @@ ifndef NO_LIBELF
 
   ifndef NO_LIBBPF
     ifeq ($(feature-bpf), 1)
-      # detecting libbpf without LIBBPF_DYNAMIC, so make VF=1 shows libbpf detection status
-      $(call feature_check,libbpf)
-
       ifdef LIBBPF_DYNAMIC
+        $(call feature_check,libbpf)
         ifeq ($(feature-libbpf), 1)
           EXTLIBS += -lbpf
           CFLAGS += -DHAVE_LIBBPF_SUPPORT