The tool pkg-config used to check libtraceevent and libtracefs, if not
installed, it will report the libs not found, even though they have
already been installed.
Before:
libtraceevent is missing. Please install libtraceevent-dev/libtraceevent-devel
libtracefs is missing. Please install libtracefs-dev/libtracefs-devel
After:
Makefile.config:10: *** Error: pkg-config needed by libtraceevent/libtracefs is missing
on this system, please install it.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250808040527.2036023-2-chen.dylane@linux.dev
Fixes: 01474dc706 ("tools/rtla: Use tools/build makefiles to build rtla")
Signed-off-by: Tao Chen <chen.dylane@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
If tooling required for building BPF CO-RE skeletons is present (that
is, libbpf, clang with BPF CO-RE support, and bpftool), turn on
HAVE_BPF_SKEL flag.
Those requirements are similar to what perf requires, with the
difference of using system libbpf and bpftool instead of in-tree
versions.
rtla can be forcefully built without BPF skeleton support by setting
BUILD_BPF_SKEL=0 manually; in that case, a warning is displayed.
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Luis Goncalves <lgoncalv@redhat.com>
Cc: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250218145859.27762-4-tglozar@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Tomas Glozar <tglozar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
If libcpupower is present, set HAVE_LIBCPUPOWER_SUPPORT macro to allow
features depending on libcpupower in rtla.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20241017140914.3200454-3-tglozar@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Tomas Glozar <tglozar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
This allows to build against libtraceevent and libtracefs installed
in non-standard locations.
Signed-off-by: Guilherme Amadio <amadio@gentoo.org>
Tested-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Tested-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240712194511.3973899-5-amadio@gentoo.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Add the option allow the users to set a different buffer size for the
trace. For example, in large systems, the user might be interested on
reducing the trace buffer to avoid large tracing files.
The buffer size is specified in kB, and it is only affecting
the tracing instance.
The function trace_set_buffer_size() appears on libtracefs v1.6,
so increase the minimum required version on Makefile.config.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e7c9ca5b3865f28e131a49ec3b984fadf2d056c6.1715860611.git.bristot@kernel.org
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
Use tools/build/ makefiles to build rtla, inheriting the benefits of
it. For example, having a proper way to handle dependencies.
rtla is built using perf infra-structure when building inside the
kernel tree.
At this point, rtla diverges from perf in two points: Documentation
and tarball generation/build.
At the documentation level, rtla is one step ahead, placing the
documentation at Documentation/tools/rtla/, using the same build
tools as kernel documentation. The idea is to move perf
documentation to the same scheme and then share the same makefiles.
rtla has a tarball target that the (old) RHEL8 uses. The tarball was
kept using a simple standalone makefile for compatibility. The
standalone makefile shares most of the code, e.g., flags, with
regular buildings.
The tarball method was set as deprecated. If necessary, we can make
a rtla tarball like perf, which includes the entire tools/build.
But this would also require changes in the user side (the directory
structure changes, and probably the deps to build the package).
Inspired on perf and objtool.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/57563abf2715d22515c0c54a87cff3849eca5d52.1710519524.git.bristot@kernel.org
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
