From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com
commit cff20b3151ccab690715cb6cf0f5da5cccb32adf upstream.
To fix the build with newer gccs, that without this patch exit with:
LD /tmp/build/perf/tests/perf-in.o ld: /tmp/build/perf/tests/bp_account.o:/git/perf/tools/perf/tests/bp_account.c:22: multiple definition of `the_var'; /tmp/build/perf/tests/bp_signal.o:/git/perf/tools/perf/tests/bp_signal.c:38: first defined here make[4]: *** [/git/perf/tools/build/Makefile.build:145: /tmp/build/perf/tests/perf-in.o] Error 1
First noticed in fedora:rawhide/32 with:
[perfbuilder@a5ff49d6e6e4 ~]$ gcc --version gcc (GCC) 10.0.1 20200216 (Red Hat 10.0.1-0.8)
Reported-by: Jiri Olsa jolsa@kernel.org Cc: Adrian Hunter adrian.hunter@intel.com Cc: Namhyung Kim namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com Cc: Ben Hutchings ben@decadent.org.uk Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- tools/perf/tests/bp_account.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/tools/perf/tests/bp_account.c +++ b/tools/perf/tests/bp_account.c @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ #include "../perf-sys.h" #include "cloexec.h"
-volatile long the_var; +static volatile long the_var;
static noinline int test_function(void) {