linux/tools
Wang Nan d18acd15c6 perf tools: Fix kernel version error in ubuntu
On ubuntu the internal kernel version code is different from what can
be retrived from uname:

 $ uname -r
 4.4.0-47-generic
 $ cat /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h
 #define LINUX_VERSION_CODE 263192
 #define KERNEL_VERSION(a,b,c) (((a) << 16) + ((b) << 8) + (c))
 $ cat /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/include/generated/utsrelease.h
 #define UTS_RELEASE "4.4.0-47-generic"
 #define UTS_UBUNTU_RELEASE_ABI 47
 $ cat /proc/version_signature
 Ubuntu 4.4.0-47.68-generic 4.4.24

The macro LINUX_VERSION_CODE is set to 4.4.24 (263192 == 0x40418), but
`uname -r` reports 4.4.0.

This mismatch causes LINUX_VERSION_CODE macro passed to BPF script become
an incorrect value, results in magic failure in BPF loading:

 $ sudo ./buildperf/perf record -e ./tools/perf/tests/bpf-script-example.c ls
 event syntax error: './tools/perf/tests/bpf-script-example.c'
                      \___ Failed to load program for unknown reason

According to Ubuntu document (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/FAQ), the
correct kernel version can be retrived through /proc/version_signature, which
is ubuntu specific.

This patch checks the existance of /proc/version_signature, and returns
version number through parsing this file instead of uname. Version string
is untouched (value returns from uname) because `uname -r` is required
to be consistence with path of kbuild directory in /lib/module.

Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com>
Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: pi3orama@163.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161115040617.69788-2-wangnan0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-11-25 11:00:30 -03:00
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accounting tools: move accounting tool from Documentation 2016-09-23 13:07:15 -06:00
arch x86/cpufeature: Add AVX512_4VNNIW and AVX512_4FMAPS features 2016-10-19 17:37:13 +02:00
build tools build: Add jvmti feature detection support 2016-11-14 12:40:32 -03:00
cgroup
firewire
gpio tools/gpio: fix gpio-event-mon header comment 2016-08-08 09:50:22 +02:00
hv Drivers: hv: utils: Check VSS daemon is listening before a hot backup 2016-09-02 17:22:51 +02:00
iio Second set of iio new device support, features and cleanups for the 4.9 cycle. 2016-09-14 20:42:03 +02:00
include tools: Update asm-generic/mman-common.h copy from the kernel 2016-10-28 11:29:43 -02:00
kvm/kvm_stat tools: kvm_stat: Add comments 2016-05-25 16:12:06 +02:00
laptop tools: move laptops dslm tool from Documentation 2016-09-23 13:07:21 -06:00
lguest tools/lguest: Don't bork the terminal in case of wrong args 2016-09-08 08:05:24 +02:00
lib tools lib traceevent: Add retrieval of preempt count and latency flags 2016-11-23 10:44:03 -03:00
net tools: bpf_jit_disasm: check for klogctl failure 2016-05-08 23:32:59 -04:00
nfsd
objtool objtool: Fix rare switch jump table pattern detection 2016-10-27 08:20:27 +02:00
pcmcia tools: move pcmcia crc32hash tool from Documentation 2016-09-23 13:07:27 -06:00
perf perf tools: Fix kernel version error in ubuntu 2016-11-25 11:00:30 -03:00
power tools/power/acpi: Remove direct kernel source include reference 2016-11-16 22:31:26 +01:00
scripts tools build: Fix objtool build with ARCH=x86_64 2016-07-22 16:37:44 -03:00
spi Merge remote-tracking branches 'spi/topic/ti-qspi', 'spi/topic/tools', 'spi/topic/txx9' and 'spi/topic/xlp' into spi-next 2016-09-30 09:14:22 -07:00
testing linux-kselftest-4.9-rc1-update 2016-10-14 15:17:12 -07:00
thermal/tmon
time
usb usbip: adding names db to port operation 2016-05-03 14:32:07 -07:00
virtio ringtest: poll for new buffers once before updating event index 2016-10-31 00:21:43 +02:00
vm tools/vm/page_owner: increase temporary buffer size 2016-07-26 16:19:19 -07:00
Makefile tools/gpio: add install section 2016-06-23 11:07:13 +02:00