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| author | Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> | 2015-01-14 19:05:27 +0100 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2015-02-12 17:53:00 -0300 |
| commit | f819f703a42eed63443cef796b1852e6baf985bd (patch) | |
| tree | 582241a75a15ec76eb2240a242422a79491bc1ff /tools/perf/Documentation/Build.txt | |
| parent | db8486626246f86d8f6f77ff0020c68a6dda2e23 (diff) | |
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perf build: Add build documentation
Adding file describing the basics of perf build process.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Alexis Berlemont <alexis.berlemont@gmail.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ibgf7vxyduwohlqqfayl11xb@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/Build.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/Build.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..f6fc6507ba55 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/Build.txt @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ + +1) perf build +============= +The perf build process consists of several separated building blocks, +which are linked together to form the perf binary: + - libperf library (static) + - perf builtin commands + - traceevent library (static) + - GTK ui library + +Several makefiles govern the perf build: + + - Makefile + top level Makefile working as a wrapper that calls the main + Makefile.perf with a -j option to do parallel builds. + + - Makefile.perf + main makefile that triggers build of all perf objects including + installation and documentation processing. + + - tools/build/Makefile.build + main makefile of the build framework + + - tools/build/Build.include + build framework generic definitions + + - Build makefiles + makefiles that defines build objects + +Please refer to tools/build/Documentation/Build.txt for more +information about build framework. + + +2) perf build +============= +The Makefile.perf triggers the build framework for build objects: + perf, libperf, gtk + +resulting in following objects: + $ ls *-in.o + gtk-in.o libperf-in.o perf-in.o + +Those objects are then used in final linking: + libperf-gtk.so <- gtk-in.o libperf-in.o + perf <- perf-in.o libperf-in.o + + +NOTE this description is omitting other libraries involved, only + focusing on build framework outcomes |