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Cross compile tools for aarch64
echiugoog Jun 6, 2025
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Copy over aarch64 tools binaries
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Use make -j$(NPROC) to speedup builds
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9 changes: 8 additions & 1 deletion Makefile
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Expand Up @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ perfspect:
.PHONY: resources
resources:
mkdir -p internal/script/resources/x86_64
mkdir -p internal/script/resources/aarch64
ifneq ("$(wildcard /prebuilt/tools)","") # /prebuilt/tools is a directory in the container
cp -r /prebuilt/tools/* internal/script/resources/x86_64
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When building through the build.sh script, and associated containers, tools should come from the "prebuilt" folder.

cp -r /prebuilt/tools/bin-aarch64/* internal/script/resources/aarch64

Does that make sense?

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I'm running into this and some other issues as I work to cross compile and package perfspect. I'll pull the commits into this PR

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Please limit commits to those necessary for building the tools and the perfspect binary, i.e., not the enablement of collecting metrics on ARM. Leave that for a second PR. Thanks.

else # copy dev system tools to script resources
Expand All @@ -32,6 +33,11 @@ ifneq ("$(wildcard tools/bin)","")
else # no prebuilt tools found
@echo "No prebuilt tools found in /prebuilt/tools or tools/bin"
endif
ifneq ("$(wildcard tools/bin-aarch64)","")
cp -r tools/bin-aarch64/* internal/script/resources/aarch64
else # no prebuilt tools found
@echo "No prebuilt tools (aarch64) found in /prebuilt/tools or tools/bin-aarch64"
endif
endif


Expand All @@ -40,6 +46,7 @@ endif
dist: resources check perfspect
rm -rf dist/perfspect
mkdir -p dist/perfspect/tools/x86_64
mkdir -p dist/perfspect/tools/aarch64
cp LICENSE dist/perfspect/
cp THIRD_PARTY_PROGRAMS dist/perfspect/
cp NOTICE dist/perfspect/
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -94,7 +101,7 @@ check_static:
.PHONY: check_license
check_license:
@echo "Confirming source files have license headers..."
@for f in `find . -type f ! -path './perfspect_202*' ! -path './tools/bin/*' ! -path './internal/script/resources/*' ! -path './scripts/.venv/*' ! -path './test/output/*' ! -path './debug_out/*' ! -path './tools/perf-archive/*' ! -path './tools/avx-turbo/*' \( -name "*.go" -o -name "*.s" -o -name "*.html" -o -name "Makefile" -o -name "*.sh" -o -name "*.Dockerfile" -o -name "*.py" \)`; do \
@for f in `find . -type f ! -path './perfspect_202*' ! -path './tools/bin/*' ! -path './tools/bin-aarch64/*' ! -path './internal/script/resources/*' ! -path './scripts/.venv/*' ! -path './test/output/*' ! -path './debug_out/*' ! -path './tools/perf-archive/*' ! -path './tools/avx-turbo/*' \( -name "*.go" -o -name "*.s" -o -name "*.html" -o -name "Makefile" -o -name "*.sh" -o -name "*.Dockerfile" -o -name "*.py" \)`; do \
if ! grep -E 'SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause' "$$f" >/dev/null; then echo "Error: license not found: $$f"; fail=1; fi; \
done; if [ -n "$$fail" ]; then exit 1; fi

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Expand Up @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ id=$(docker create perfspect-tools:$TAG foo)
# Copy the tools from the temporary container to your local disk
# Note: not used in build process, but useful to have around
docker cp "$id":/bin ./tools
docker cp "$id":/bin-aarch64 ./tools/bin-aarch64

# Remove the temporary container
docker rm "$id"
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Expand Up @@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
#

NPROC := $(shell nproc)

default: tools
.PHONY: default tools async-profiler avx-turbo cpuid dmidecode ethtool fio ipmitool lshw lspci msr-tools pcm perf perf-archive processwatch spectre-meltdown-checker sshpass stackcollapse-perf stress-ng sysstat tsc turbostat

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -35,6 +37,28 @@ tools: async-profiler avx-turbo cpuid dmidecode ethtool fio ipmitool lshw lspci
cp linux_turbostat/tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat bin/
-cd bin && strip --strip-unneeded *

tools-aarch64: async-profiler-aarch64 dmidecode-aarch64 ethtool-aarch64 fio-aarch64 ipmitool-aarch64 lshw-aarch64 lspci-aarch64 spectre-meltdown-checker sshpass-aarch64 stackcollapse-perf-aarch64 stress-ng-aarch64 sysstat-aarch64 tsc-aarch64
mkdir -p bin-aarch64
cp -R async-profiler-aarch64 bin-aarch64/
cp dmidecode-aarch64/dmidecode bin-aarch64/
cp ethtool-aarch64/ethtool bin-aarch64/
cp fio-aarch64/fio bin-aarch64/
cp stackcollapse-perf/stackcollapse-perf-aarch64 bin-aarch64/stackcollapse-perf
cp ipmitool-aarch64/src/ipmitool.static bin-aarch64/ipmitool
cp lshw-aarch64/src/lshw-static bin-aarch64/lshw
cp lspci-aarch64/lspci bin-aarch64/
cp lspci-aarch64/pci.ids.gz bin-aarch64/
cp spectre-meltdown-checker/spectre-meltdown-checker.sh bin-aarch64/
cp sshpass-aarch64/sshpass bin-aarch64/
cp stress-ng-aarch64/stress-ng bin-aarch64/
cp sysstat-aarch64/mpstat bin-aarch64/
cp sysstat-aarch64/iostat bin-aarch64/
cp sysstat-aarch64/sar bin-aarch64/
cp sysstat-aarch64/sadc bin-aarch64/
cp tsc/tsc-aarch64 bin-aarch64/tsc
-cd bin-aarch64 && aarch64-linux-gnu-strip --strip-unneeded * || true


ASYNC_PROFILER_VERSION := "4.0"
async-profiler:
ifeq ("$(wildcard async-profiler)","")
Expand All @@ -44,6 +68,15 @@ endif
tar -xf async-profiler-$(ASYNC_PROFILER_VERSION)-linux-x64.tar.gz && mv async-profiler-$(ASYNC_PROFILER_VERSION)-linux-x64 async-profiler
endif

async-profiler-aarch64:
ifeq ("$(wildcard async-profiler-aarch64)","")
ifeq ("$(wildcard async-profiler-$(ASYNC_PROFILER_VERSION)-linux-arm64.tar.gz)","")
wget https://github.com/jvm-profiling-tools/async-profiler/releases/download/v$(ASYNC_PROFILER_VERSION)/async-profiler-$(ASYNC_PROFILER_VERSION)-linux-arm64.tar.gz
endif
tar -xf async-profiler-$(ASYNC_PROFILER_VERSION)-linux-arm64.tar.gz && mv async-profiler-$(ASYNC_PROFILER_VERSION)-linux-arm64 async-profiler-aarch64
endif


AVX_TURBO_VERSION := "9cfe8bf"
avx-turbo:
ifeq ("$(wildcard avx-turbo)","")
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -78,7 +111,28 @@ else
cd dmidecode && git checkout master && git pull
endif
cd dmidecode && git checkout $(DMIDECODE_VERSION)
cd dmidecode && make
cd dmidecode && make -j$(NPROC)

dmidecode-aarch64:
ifeq ("$(wildcard dmidecode-aarch64)","")
git clone https://github.com/mirror/dmidecode.git dmidecode-aarch64
else
cd dmidecode-aarch64 && git checkout master && git pull
endif
cd dmidecode-aarch64 && git checkout $(DMIDECODE_VERSION)
cd dmidecode-aarch64 && CC=aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc make -j$(NPROC)

ELFUTILS_VERSION := "0.186"
elfutils-aarch64: zlib-aarch64
ifeq ("$(wildcard elfutils-aarch64)","")
wget https://sourceware.org/elfutils/ftp/0.186/elfutils-$(ELFUTILS_VERSION).tar.bz2
mkdir -p elfutils-tmp
bzip2 -dc elfutils-$(ELFUTILS_VERSION).tar.bz2 | tar -C elfutils-tmp -xf -
mv elfutils-tmp/elfutils-$(ELFUTILS_VERSION) elfutils-aarch64 && rm -rf elfutils-tmp
endif
cd elfutils-aarch64 && ./configure --host=aarch64-linux-gnu --disable-debuginfod --disable-libdebuginfod
cd elfutils-aarch64 && make -j$(NPROC)
cd elfutils-aarch64 && cp libelf/libelf.a /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/

ETHTOOL_VERSION := "v6.5"
ethtool:
Expand All @@ -91,7 +145,19 @@ endif
ifeq ("$(wildcard ethtool/Makefile)","")
cd ethtool && ./autogen.sh && ./configure enable_netlink=no
endif
cd ethtool && make
cd ethtool && make -j$(NPROC)

ethtool-aarch64:
ifeq ("$(wildcard ethtool-aarch64)","")
git clone https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/ethtool/ethtool.git ethtool-aarch64
else
cd ethtool-aarch64 && git checkout master && git pull
endif
cd ethtool-aarch64 && git checkout $(ETHTOOL_VERSION)
ifeq ("$(wildcard ethtool-aarch64/Makefile)","")
cd ethtool-aarch64 && ./autogen.sh && ./configure --host aarch64-linux-gnu enable_netlink=no
endif
cd ethtool-aarch64 && make -j$(NPROC)

FIO_VERSION := "fio-3.38"
fio:
Expand All @@ -104,7 +170,19 @@ endif
ifeq ("$(wildcard fio/config.log)","")
cd fio && ./configure --build-static --disable-native
endif
cd fio && make
cd fio && make -j$(NPROC)

fio-aarch64:
ifeq ("$(wildcard fio-aarch64)","")
git clone https://github.com/axboe/fio.git fio-aarch64
else
cd fio-aarch64 && git checkout master && git pull
endif
cd fio-aarch64 && git checkout $(FIO_VERSION)
ifeq ("$(wildcard fio-aarch64/config.log)","")
cd fio-aarch64 && ./configure --build-static --disable-native --cc=aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc
endif
cd fio-aarch64 && make -j$(NPROC)

IPMITOOL_VERSION := "IPMITOOL_1_8_19"
ipmitool:
Expand All @@ -117,9 +195,32 @@ ifeq ("$(wildcard ipmitool/Makefile)","")
sed -i "s#x\$$xenable_ipmishell#xno#" ipmitool/configure.ac
cd ipmitool && ./bootstrap && LDFLAGS=-static ./configure
endif
cd ipmitool && make
cd ipmitool && make -j$(NPROC)
cd ipmitool/src && ../libtool --silent --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -fno-strict-aliasing -Wreturn-type -all-static -o ipmitool.static ipmitool.o ipmishell.o ../lib/libipmitool.la plugins/libintf.la

ipmitool-aarch64:
ifeq ("$(wildcard ipmitool-aarch64)","")
git clone https://github.com/ipmitool/ipmitool.git ipmitool-aarch64
endif
cd ipmitool-aarch64 && git checkout $(IPMITOOL_VERSION)
ifeq ("$(wildcard ipmitool-aarch64/Makefile)","")
# hack to get around static build problem - don't check for libreadline
sed -i "s#x\$$xenable_ipmishell#xno#" ipmitool-aarch64/configure.ac
cd ipmitool-aarch64 && ./bootstrap && LDFLAGS=-static ./configure --host=aarch64-linux-gnu
endif
cd ipmitool-aarch64 && CC=aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc make -j$(NPROC)
cd ipmitool-aarch64/src && ../libtool --silent --tag=CC --mode=link aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc -fno-strict-aliasing -Wreturn-type -all-static -o ipmitool.static ipmitool.o ipmishell.o ../lib/libipmitool.la plugins/libintf.la

LIBPFM4_VERSION := "v4.11.1"
libpfm4-aarch64:
ifeq ("$(wildcard libpfm4-aarch64)","")
git clone https://git.code.sf.net/p/perfmon2/libpfm4 libpfm4-aarch64
endif
cd libpfm4-aarch64 && git checkout $(LIBPFM4_VERSION)
cd libpfm4-aarch64 && sed -i 's/^ARCH :=/ARCH ?=/' config.mk
cd libpfm4-aarch64 && ARCH=arm64 CC=aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc make -j$(NPROC)
cd libpfm4-aarch64 && cp lib/libpfm.a /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/

LSHW_VERSION := "B.02.19"
lshw:
ifeq ("$(wildcard lshw)","")
Expand All @@ -130,6 +231,15 @@ endif
cd lshw && git checkout $(LSHW_VERSION)
cd lshw/src && make static

lshw-aarch64:
ifeq ("$(wildcard lshw-aarch64)","")
git clone https://github.com/lyonel/lshw.git lshw-aarch64
else
cd lshw-aarch64 && git checkout master && git pull
endif
cd lshw-aarch64 && git checkout $(LSHW_VERSION)
cd lshw-aarch64/src && STRIP=aarch64-linux-gnu-strip CXX=aarch64-linux-gnu-g++ make static

LSPCI_VERSION := "v3.13.0"
lspci:
ifeq ("$(wildcard lspci)","")
Expand All @@ -138,10 +248,24 @@ else
cd lspci && git checkout master && git pull
endif
cd lspci && git checkout $(LSPCI_VERSION)
cd lspci && make
cd lspci && make -j$(NPROC)
cd lspci && ./update-pciids.sh
cd lspci && gzip -c pci.ids > pci.ids.gz

lspci-aarch64: zlib-aarch64
ifeq ("$(wildcard lspc-aarch64)","")
git clone https://github.com/pciutils/pciutils.git lspci-aarch64
else
cd lspci-aarch64 && git checkout master && git pull
endif
cd lspci-aarch64 && git checkout $(LSPCI_VERSION)
cd lspci-aarch64 && sed -i '/cpu=.*/cpu=aarch64/g' lib/configure
cd lspci-aarch64 && sed -i 's/^CROSS_COMPILE=/CROSS_COMPILE?=/g' Makefile
cd lspci-aarch64 && sed -i 's/^SHARED=/SHARED?=/g' Makefile
cd lspci-aarch64 && CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- SHARED=no make -j$(NPROC)
cd lspci-aarch64 && ./update-pciids.sh
cd lspci-aarch64 && gzip -c pci.ids > pci.ids.gz

MSR_TOOLS_VERSION := "master"
msr-tools:
ifeq ("$(wildcard msr-tools)","")
Expand All @@ -168,11 +292,22 @@ PERF_VERSION := "6.8.12"
perf:
wget https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/linux-$(PERF_VERSION).tar.xz
tar -xf linux-$(PERF_VERSION).tar.xz && mv linux-$(PERF_VERSION)/ linux_perf/
cd linux_perf/tools/perf && make LDFLAGS="-static --static" BUILD_BPF_SKEL=1 NO_JVMTI=1
cd linux_perf/tools/perf && make LDFLAGS="-static --static" BUILD_BPF_SKEL=1 NO_JVMTI=1 -j$(NPROC)
mkdir -p bin
cp linux_perf/tools/perf/perf bin/
strip --strip-unneeded bin/perf

perf-aarch64: PERF_VERSION := "6.15.3"
perf-aarch64: zlib-aarch64 elfutils-aarch64 libpfm4-aarch64
ifeq ("$(wildcard perf-aarch64)","")
wget -N https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/linux-$(PERF_VERSION).tar.xz
tar -xf linux-$(PERF_VERSION).tar.xz && mv linux-$(PERF_VERSION)/ linux_perf-aarch64/
endif
cd linux_perf-aarch64/tools/perf && make LDFLAGS="-static --static" BUILD_BPF_SKEL=1 NO_JVMTI=1 ARCH=arm64 NO_LIBTRACEEVENT=1 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- -j$(NPROC)
mkdir -p bin-aarch64
cp linux_perf-aarch64/tools/perf/perf bin-aarch64/
aarch64-linux-gnu-strip --strip-unneeded bin-aarch64/perf

perf-archive:
mkdir -p bin
cp perf-archive/perf-archive.sh bin/perf-archive
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -209,11 +344,24 @@ ifeq ("$(wildcard sshpass)","")
rm sshpass-$(SSHPASS_VERSION).tar.gz
cd sshpass && ./configure
endif
cd sshpass && make
cd sshpass && make -j$(NPROC)

sshpass-aarch64:
ifeq ("$(wildcard sshpass-aarch64)","")
wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/sshpass/files/sshpass/$(SSHPASS_VERSION)/sshpass-$(SSHPASS_VERSION).tar.gz
tar -xf sshpass-$(SSHPASS_VERSION).tar.gz
mv sshpass-$(SSHPASS_VERSION) sshpass-aarch64
rm sshpass-$(SSHPASS_VERSION).tar.gz
cd sshpass-aarch64 && ./configure --host=aarch64-linux-gnu
endif
cd sshpass-aarch64 && make -j$(NPROC)

stackcollapse-perf:
cd stackcollapse-perf && CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 go build

stackcollapse-perf-aarch64:
cd stackcollapse-perf && CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=linux GOARCH=arm64 go build -o $@

STRESS_NG_VERSION := "V0.13.08"
stress-ng:
ifeq ("$(wildcard stress-ng)","")
Expand All @@ -222,7 +370,16 @@ else
cd stress-ng && git checkout master && git pull
endif
cd stress-ng && git checkout $(STRESS_NG_VERSION)
cd stress-ng && STATIC=1 make
cd stress-ng && STATIC=1 make -j$(NPROC)

stress-ng-aarch64:
ifeq ("$(wildcard stress-ng-aarch64)","")
git clone https://github.com/ColinIanKing/stress-ng.git stress-ng-aarch64
else
cd stress-ng-aarch64 && git checkout master && git pull
endif
cd stress-ng-aarch64 && git checkout $(STRESS_NG_VERSION)
cd stress-ng-aarch64 && CC=aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc STATIC=1 make -j$(NPROC)

SYSSTAT_VERSION := "v12.7.6"
sysstat:
Expand All @@ -235,18 +392,41 @@ endif
ifeq ("$(wildcard sysstat/Makefile)","")
cd sysstat && ./configure
endif
cd sysstat && make
cd sysstat && make -j$(NPROC)

sysstat-aarch64:
ifeq ("$(wildcard sysstat-aarch64)","")
git clone https://github.com/sysstat/sysstat.git sysstat-aarch64
else
cd sysstat-aarch64 && git checkout master && git pull
endif
cd sysstat-aarch64 && git checkout $(SYSSTAT_VERSION)
ifeq ("$(wildcard sysstat-aarch64/Makefile)","")
cd sysstat-aarch64 && ./configure --host=aarch64-linux-gnu
endif
cd sysstat-aarch64 && make -j$(NPROC)

tsc:
cd tsc && CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 go build

tsc-aarch64:
cd tsc && CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=linux GOARCH=arm64 go build -o tsc-aarch64

TURBOSTAT_VERSION := "6.9.12"
turbostat:
wget https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/linux-$(TURBOSTAT_VERSION).tar.xz
tar -xf linux-$(TURBOSTAT_VERSION).tar.xz && mv linux-$(TURBOSTAT_VERSION)/ linux_turbostat/
sed -i '/_Static_assert/d' linux_turbostat/tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c
cd linux_turbostat/tools/power/x86/turbostat && make

zlib-aarch64:
ifeq ("$(wildcard zlib-aarch64)","")
git clone https://github.com/madler/zlib.git zlib-aarch64
endif
cd zlib-aarch64 && CHOST=aarch64-linux-gnu ./configure --archs="" --static
cd zlib-aarch64 && make -j$(NPROC)
cd zlib-aarch64 && cp libz.a /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/

reset:
cd async-profiler
cd cpuid && make clean
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