From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@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 <jo...@kernel.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hun...@intel.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhy...@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@redhat.com> Cc: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@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) {