Re: [PATCHSET 00/10] tools headers: Sync header files with the kernel

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Apr 10 2025 - 02:02:25 EST



* Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> FYI I'm carrying these changes in the perf tools tree so make perf trace
> beautifiers get the recent changes in syscall, ioctl, and so on. For the
> background, please see tools/include/uapi/README.
>
> Still there are some remaining items but it requires a bit more changes.
> So I'd like to leave them for the next cycle.
>
> Warning: Kernel ABI header differences:
> diff -u tools/include/uapi/linux/bits.h include/uapi/linux/bits.h
> diff -u tools/include/linux/bits.h include/linux/bits.h
> diff -u tools/arch/arm64/include/asm/cputype.h arch/arm64/include/asm/cputype.h
>
> Thanks,
> Namhyung
>
>
> Namhyung Kim (10):
> tools headers: Update the KVM headers with the kernel sources
> tools headers: Update the socket headers with the kernel sources
> tools headers: Update the uapi/linux/perf_event.h copy with the kernel sources
> tools headers: Update the VFS headers with the kernel sources
> tools headers: Update the syscall table with the kernel sources
> tools headers: Update the uapi/linux/prctl.h copy with the kernel sources
> tools headers: Update the uapi/asm-generic/mman-common.h copy with the kernel sources
> tools headers: Update the linux/unaligned.h copy with the kernel sources
> tools headers: Update the x86 headers with the kernel sources
> tools headers: Update the arch/x86/lib/memset_64.S copy with the kernel sources

> 32 files changed, 318 insertions(+), 109 deletions(-)

LGTM, I was eying those warnings too, glad you did this. :-)

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>

Ingo