From: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Date: Mon, 18 May 2026 15:46:27 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: perf build: Decouple pmu-events from prepare umbrella target
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perf build: Decouple pmu-events from prepare umbrella target

Currently, the $(LIBPMU_EVENTS_IN) sub-make depends on the massive
"prepare" umbrella target. Because "prepare" depends on external
libraries (libapi, libperf, etc.) as well as dozens of generated
headers, make completely serializes the launch of the pmu-events
sub-make behind some of those unrelated prerequisites.

Since pmu-events is a large compilation unit, unblock its startup by
binding it directly to only $(LIBPERF) instead of prepare. This allows
background python generation scripts to overlap simultaneously with
the rest of the build.

Testing a parallel build (make -j28 clean all) shows improvements:
  Before:
    real    0m27.642s
    user    2m32.356s
    sys     0m26.683s

  After:
    real    0m22.254s
    user    2m32.810s
    sys     0m24.646s

This reclaims over 5 full seconds of build latency (~19.5% overall
reduction) by elevating average CPU concurrency from ~5.5 active cores
up to ~8 active cores.

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.perf b/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
index c81797ceec42..c66af4c825fd 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
+++ b/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
@@ -550,7 +550,7 @@ build := -f $(srctree)/tools/build/Makefile.build dir=. obj
 $(PERF_IN): prepare FORCE
 	$(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=perf
 
-$(LIBPMU_EVENTS_IN): FORCE prepare
+$(LIBPMU_EVENTS_IN): FORCE $(LIBPERF)
 	$(Q)$(MAKE) -f $(srctree)/tools/build/Makefile.build dir=pmu-events obj=pmu-events
 
 $(LIBPMU_EVENTS): $(LIBPMU_EVENTS_IN)