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libperf: Use 'extern' in LIBPERF_API visibility macro
authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Thu, 4 Dec 2025 16:11:49 +0000 (13:11 -0300)
committerNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Fri, 5 Dec 2025 18:31:32 +0000 (10:31 -0800)
commit2eeb09fe1c5173b659929f92fee4461796ca8c14
tree1fcb8a1931d2d84fcd2abf47a136a22c71cb7884
parentd509d14fff783969904954eaf5d94f092c6fce19
libperf: Use 'extern' in LIBPERF_API visibility macro

Use 'extern' on LIBPERF_API to address this issue that started appearing
with gcc 15, first seen in ubuntu 25.10:

  evlist.c: In function 'perf_evlist__purge':
  evlist.c:202:17: error: implicit declaration of function 'perf_evsel__delete'; did you mean 'perf_evsel__exit'? [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
    202 |                 perf_evsel__delete(pos);
        |                 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
        |                 perf_evsel__exit
  evlist.c:202:17: error: nested extern declaration of 'perf_evsel__delete' [-Werror=nested-externs]
  evlist.c: In function 'perf_evlist__open':
  evlist.c:261:23: error: implicit declaration of function 'perf_evsel__open'; did you mean 'perf_evsel__exit'? [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
    261 |                 err = perf_evsel__open(evsel, evsel->cpus, evsel->threads);
        |                       ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
        |                       perf_evsel__exit
  evlist.c:261:23: error: nested extern declaration of 'perf_evsel__open' [-Werror=nested-externs]

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
tools/lib/perf/include/perf/core.h