[OE-core] oprofile rebuilds for different MACHINES (sstate)

[Philip Balister]

On 08/12/2015 05:26 AM, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> So, I've been debugging the issue of oprofile rebuilding from one MACHINE to 
> another (causing PR issues, etc). I was able to trace it down to this line:

Why not use perf instead of oprofile?

Philip

> 
> EXTRA_OECONF = "--with-kernel=${STAGING_KERNEL_DIR}  --without-x ac_cv_prog_XSLTPROC="
> 
> And STAGING_KERNEL_DIR resolves to this:
> 
> STAGING_KERNEL_DIR = "${TMPDIR}/work-shared/${MACHINE}/kernel-source"
> 
> Now, obviously, when MACHINE changes, sstate invalidates do_configure and 
> rebuilds oprofile.
> 
> The question is, what is the proper fix in this case - mark oprofile as 
> machine-specific with PACKAGE_ARCH = "${MACHINE_ARCH}", since it will be 
> configuring and building against (potentially) completely different kernel 
> tree. So, just mark it explicitly and be safe...
> 
> Or another option is to tell sstate to ignore changes to the above variables 
> with this simple line:
> 
> EXTRA_OECONF[vardepsexclude] = "STAGING_KERNEL_DIR"
> 
> This also does the trick, but I'm a bit worried there could be side-effects of 
> using oprofile against the wrong kernel... Any recommendations?
>