[Buildroot] [PATCH] perf: new package

[Thomas Petazzoni]

This patch adds a new package that allows to build the 'perf'
userspace tool that comes in the tools/perf directory of the kernel
sources.

It is an alternative proposal to the one done by Kaiwan Billimoria
<kaiwan.billimoria at gmail.com>, in that it creates the package in
package/perf/. It therefore properly integrates with the Buildroot
package infrastructure.

Of course, the package depends on the Linux kernel to be built by
Buildroot, in order to get Perf sources matching the version of the
kernel that will be executed.

One remaining issue is that this package only builds properly with
kernel >= v3.7 (but it was the same with Kaiwan proposal) : the
NO_LIBELF variable, which allows to get rid of the libelf dependency,
has only been introduced between 3.6 and 3.7. If we want to support
older kernel versions, we'll have to create a package for libelf.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
---
 package/Config.in      |    1 +
 package/perf/Config.in |   22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 package/perf/perf.mk   |   38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 61 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 package/perf/Config.in
 create mode 100644 package/perf/perf.mk

diff --git a/package/Config.in b/package/Config.in
index 7860f3f..9e392d8 100644
--- a/package/Config.in
+++ b/package/Config.in
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ source "package/ltrace/Config.in"
 source "package/memstat/Config.in"
 source "package/netperf/Config.in"
 source "package/oprofile/Config.in"
+source "package/perf/Config.in"
 source "package/ramspeed/Config.in"
 source "package/rt-tests/Config.in"
 source "package/strace/Config.in"
diff --git a/package/perf/Config.in b/package/perf/Config.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..54b24fe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/perf/Config.in
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+config BR2_PACKAGE_PERF
+	bool "perf"
+	depends on BR2_LINUX_KERNEL
+	depends on BR2_LARGEFILE
+	help
+	  perf (sometimes "Perf Events" or perf tools, originally
+	  "Performance Counters for Linux") - is a performance
+	  analyzing tool in Linux, available from kernel version
+	  2.6.31. User-space controlling utility, called 'perf' has
+	  git-like interface with subcommands. It is capable of
+	  statistical profiling of entire system (both kernel and user
+	  code), single CPU or severals threads.
+
+	  This package builds and install the userspace 'perf'
+	  command. It is up to the user to ensure that the kernel
+	  configuration has all suitable options enable to allow a
+	  proper operation of 'perf'.
+
+	  https://perf.wiki.kernel.org/
+
+comment "perf only available if Linux kernel is enabled, and requires largefile support"
+	depends on !BR2_LINUX_KERNEL || !BR2_LARGEFILE
diff --git a/package/perf/perf.mk b/package/perf/perf.mk
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7774dae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/perf/perf.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+#############################################################
+#
+# perf
+#
+#############################################################
+
+# Source taken from the Linux kernel tree
+PERF_SOURCE =
+PERF_VERSION = $(call qstrip,$(BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_VERSION))
+
+PERF_DEPENDENCIES = linux
+
+PERF_MAKE_FLAGS = \
+	$(LINUX_MAKE_FLAGS) \
+	NO_LIBELF=1 \
+	NO_DWARF=1 \
+	NO_LIBAUDIT=1 \
+	NO_NEWT=1 \
+	NO_GTK2=1 \
+	NO_LIBPERL=1 \
+	NO_LIBPYTHON=1 \
+	DESTDIR=$(TARGET_DIR) \
+	prefix=/usr
+
+define PERF_BUILD_CMDS
+	$(MAKE) -C $(LINUX_DIR)/tools/perf \
+		$(PERF_MAKE_FLAGS) O=$(@D)
+endef
+
+# After installation, we remove the Perl and Python scripts from the
+# target.
+define PERF_INSTALL_TARGET_CMDS
+	$(MAKE) -C $(LINUX_DIR)/tools/perf \
+		$(PERF_MAKE_FLAGS) O=$(@D) install
+	$(RM) -rf $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/libexec/perf-core/scripts/
+endef
+
+$(eval $(generic-package))
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