perf tools: Allow to link with libbpf dynamicaly

Currently we support only static linking with kernel's libbpf
(tools/lib/bpf). This patch adds libbpf package detection and support to
link perf with it dynamically.

The libbpf package status is displayed with:

  $ make VF=1
  Auto-detecting system features:
  ...
  ...                        libbpf: [ on  ]

It's not checked by default, because it's quite new.  Once it's on most
distros we can switch it on.

For the same reason it's not added to the test-all check.

Perf does not need advanced version of libbpf, so we can check just for
the base bpf_object__open function.

Adding new compile variable to detect libbpf package and link bpf
dynamically:

  $ make LIBBPF_DYNAMIC=1
    ...
    LINK     perf
  $ ldd perf | grep bpf
    libbpf.so.0 => /lib64/libbpf.so.0 (0x00007f46818bc000)

If libbpf is not installed, build stops with:

  Makefile.config:486: *** Error: No libbpf devel library found,\
  please install libbpf-devel.  Stop.

Committer testing:

  $ make LIBBPF_DYNAMIC=1 -C tools/perf O=/tmp/build/perf
  make: Entering directory '/home/acme/git/perf/tools/perf'
    BUILD:   Doing 'make -j8' parallel build
  Makefile.config:493: *** Error: No libbpf devel library found, please install libbpf-devel.  Stop.
  make[1]: *** [Makefile.perf:225: sub-make] Error 2
  make: *** [Makefile:70: all] Error 2
  make: Leaving directory '/home/acme/git/perf/tools/perf'
  $

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Cc: Michael Petlan <mpetlan@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191126121253.28253-1-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

2 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/Makefile.config b/tools/perf/Makefile.config
index 1783427da9b0..c90f4146e5a2 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Makefile.config
+++ b/tools/perf/Makefile.config
@@ -483,6 +483,16 @@ ifndef NO_LIBELF
     ifeq ($(feature-bpf), 1)
       CFLAGS += -DHAVE_LIBBPF_SUPPORT
       $(call detected,CONFIG_LIBBPF)
+
+      # detecting libbpf without LIBBPF_DYNAMIC, so make VF=1 shows libbpf detection status
+      $(call feature_check,libbpf)
+      ifdef LIBBPF_DYNAMIC
+        ifeq ($(feature-libbpf), 1)
+          EXTLIBS += -lbpf
+        else
+          dummy := $(error Error: No libbpf devel library found, please install libbpf-devel);
+        endif
+      endif
     endif
 
     ifndef NO_DWARF
diff --git a/tools/perf/Makefile.perf b/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
index 1cd294468a1f..eae5d5e95952 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
+++ b/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
@@ -116,6 +116,8 @@ include ../scripts/utilities.mak
 #
 # Define TCMALLOC to enable tcmalloc heap profiling.
 #
+# Define LIBBPF_DYNAMIC to enable libbpf dynamic linking.
+#
 
 # As per kernel Makefile, avoid funny character set dependencies
 unexport LC_ALL
@@ -360,7 +362,9 @@ export PERL_PATH
 
 PERFLIBS = $(LIBAPI) $(LIBTRACEEVENT) $(LIBSUBCMD) $(LIBPERF)
 ifndef NO_LIBBPF
-  PERFLIBS += $(LIBBPF)
+  ifndef LIBBPF_DYNAMIC
+    PERFLIBS += $(LIBBPF)
+  endif
 endif
 
 # We choose to avoid "if .. else if .. else .. endif endif"