__always_inline can cause build error on musl libc. The fix patch has submitted but not merged yet[1]. To build perf tool with musl libc, <linux/stddef.h> inclusion is necessary and it should be included before asm/byteorder.h.
from /usr/include/linux/byteorder/little_endian.h:13, from /usr/include/asm/byteorder.h:23, from tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h:20, from arch/arm64/util/../../arm/util/pmu.c:9: /usr/include/linux/swab.h:171:8: error: unknown type name '__always_inline' 171 | static __always_inline __u16 __swab16p(const __u16 *p) | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [1]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/9/13/78 Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poir...@linaro.org> Cc: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poul...@arm.com> Cc: Mike Leach <mike.le...@linaro.org> Cc: Leo Yan <leo....@linaro.org> Cc: John Garry <john.ga...@huawei.com> Cc: Will Deacon <w...@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutl...@arm.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jo...@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhy...@kernel.org> Cc: Khem Raj <raj.k...@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Chanho Park <chanho61.p...@samsung.com> --- include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h index bb7b271397a6..af5e80dc7d54 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h @@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ #include <linux/types.h> #include <linux/ioctl.h> +#if !defined(__GLIBC__) +#include <linux/stddef.h> +#endif #include <asm/byteorder.h> /* -- 2.23.0