perf bpf: Remove support for embedding clang for compiling BPF events (-e foo.c)

This never was in the default build for perf, is difficult to maintain
as it uses clang/llvm internals so ditch it, keeping, for now, the
external compilation of .c BPF into .o bytecode and its subsequent
loading, that is also going to be removed, do it separately to help
bisection and to properly document what is being removed and why.

Committer notes:

Extracted from a larger patch and removed some leftovers, namely
deleting these now unused feature tests:

    tools/build/feature/test-clang.cpp
    tools/build/feature/test-cxx.cpp
    tools/build/feature/test-llvm-version.cpp
    tools/build/feature/test-llvm.cpp

Testing the use of BPF events after applying this patch:

To use the external clang/llvm toolchain to compile a .c event and then
use libbpf to load it, to get the syscalls:sys_enter_open* tracepoints
and read the filename pointer, putting it into the ring buffer right
after the usual tracepoint payload for 'perf trace' to then print it:

  [root@quaco ~]# perf trace -e /home/acme/git/perf-tools-next/tools/perf/examples/bpf/augmented_raw_syscalls.c,open* --max-events=10
     0.000 systemd-oomd/959 openat(dfd: CWD, filename: "/proc/meminfo", flags: RDONLY|CLOEXEC) = 12
     0.083 abrt-dump-jour/1453 openat(dfd: CWD, filename: "/var/log/journal/d6a97235307247e09f13f326fb607e3c/system.journal", flags: RDONLY|CLOEXEC|NONBLOCK) = 4
     0.063 abrt-dump-jour/1454 openat(dfd: CWD, filename: "/var/log/journal/d6a97235307247e09f13f326fb607e3c/system.journal", flags: RDONLY|CLOEXEC|NONBLOCK) = 4
     0.082 abrt-dump-jour/1455 openat(dfd: CWD, filename: "/var/log/journal/d6a97235307247e09f13f326fb607e3c/system.journal", flags: RDONLY|CLOEXEC|NONBLOCK) = 4
   250.124 systemd-oomd/959 openat(dfd: CWD, filename: "/proc/meminfo", flags: RDONLY|CLOEXEC) = 12
   250.521 systemd-oomd/959 openat(dfd: CWD, filename: "/sys/fs/cgroup/user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/app.slice/memory.pressure", flags: RDONLY|CLOEXEC) = 12
   251.047 systemd-oomd/959 openat(dfd: CWD, filename: "/sys/fs/cgroup/user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/app.slice/memory.current", flags: RDONLY|CLOEXEC) = 12
   251.162 systemd-oomd/959 openat(dfd: CWD, filename: "/sys/fs/cgroup/user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/app.slice/memory.min", flags: RDONLY|CLOEXEC) = 12
   251.242 systemd-oomd/959 openat(dfd: CWD, filename: "/sys/fs/cgroup/user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/app.slice/memory.low", flags: RDONLY|CLOEXEC) = 12
   251.353 systemd-oomd/959 openat(dfd: CWD, filename: "/sys/fs/cgroup/user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/app.slice/memory.swap.current", flags: RDONLY|CLOEXEC) = 12
  [root@quaco ~]#

Same thing, but with a prebuilt .o BPF bytecode:

  [root@quaco ~]# perf trace -e /home/acme/git/perf-tools-next/tools/perf/examples/bpf/augmented_raw_syscalls.o,open* --max-events=10
     0.000 systemd-oomd/959 openat(dfd: CWD, filename: "/proc/meminfo", flags: RDONLY|CLOEXEC) = 12
     0.083 abrt-dump-jour/1453 openat(dfd: CWD, filename: "/var/log/journal/d6a97235307247e09f13f326fb607e3c/system.journal", flags: RDONLY|CLOEXEC|NONBLOCK) = 4
     0.083 abrt-dump-jour/1455 openat(dfd: CWD, filename: "/var/log/journal/d6a97235307247e09f13f326fb607e3c/system.journal", flags: RDONLY|CLOEXEC|NONBLOCK) = 4
     0.062 abrt-dump-jour/1454 openat(dfd: CWD, filename: "/var/log/journal/d6a97235307247e09f13f326fb607e3c/system.journal", flags: RDONLY|CLOEXEC|NONBLOCK) = 4
   249.985 systemd-oomd/959 openat(dfd: CWD, filename: "/proc/meminfo", flags: RDONLY|CLOEXEC) = 12
   466.763 thermald/1234 openat(dfd: CWD, filename: "/sys/class/powercap/intel-rapl/intel-rapl:0/intel-rapl:0:2/energy_uj") = 13
   467.145 thermald/1234 openat(dfd: CWD, filename: "/sys/class/powercap/intel-rapl/intel-rapl:0/energy_uj") = 13
   467.311 thermald/1234 openat(dfd: CWD, filename: "/sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone2/temp") = 13
   500.040 cgroupify/24006 openat(dfd: 4, filename: ".", flags: RDONLY|CLOEXEC|DIRECTORY|NONBLOCK) = 5
   500.295 cgroupify/24006 openat(dfd: 4, filename: "24616/cgroup.procs") = 5
  [root@quaco ~]#

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com>
Cc: Carsten Haitzler <carsten.haitzler@arm.com>
Cc: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Cc: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
Cc: Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Cc: Wang ShaoBo <bobo.shaobowang@huawei.com>
Cc: Yang Jihong <yangjihong1@huawei.com>
Cc: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Cc: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZNZWsAXg2px1sm2h@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

4 files changed, 0 insertions, 35 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/Build b/tools/perf/tests/Build
index fb9ac5dc4079..52df5923a8b9 100644
--- a/tools/perf/tests/Build
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/Build
@@ -51,7 +51,6 @@ perf-y += sdt.o
 perf-y += is_printable_array.o
 perf-y += bitmap.o
 perf-y += perf-hooks.o
-perf-y += clang.o
 perf-y += unit_number__scnprintf.o
 perf-y += mem2node.o
 perf-y += maps.o
diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/builtin-test.c b/tools/perf/tests/builtin-test.c
index 6accb5442a73..0f3691fd31c2 100644
--- a/tools/perf/tests/builtin-test.c
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/builtin-test.c
@@ -108,7 +108,6 @@ static struct test_suite *generic_tests[] = {
 	&suite__is_printable_array,
 	&suite__bitmap_print,
 	&suite__perf_hooks,
-	&suite__clang,
 	&suite__unit_number__scnprint,
 	&suite__mem2node,
 	&suite__time_utils,
diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/clang.c b/tools/perf/tests/clang.c
deleted file mode 100644
index a7111005d5b9..000000000000
--- a/tools/perf/tests/clang.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
-#include "tests.h"
-#include "c++/clang-c.h"
-#include <linux/kernel.h>
-
-#ifndef HAVE_LIBCLANGLLVM_SUPPORT
-static int test__clang_to_IR(struct test_suite *test __maybe_unused,
-			     int subtest __maybe_unused)
-{
-	return TEST_SKIP;
-}
-
-static int test__clang_to_obj(struct test_suite *test __maybe_unused,
-			      int subtest __maybe_unused)
-{
-	return TEST_SKIP;
-}
-#endif
-
-static struct test_case clang_tests[] = {
-	TEST_CASE_REASON("builtin clang compile C source to IR", clang_to_IR,
-			 "not compiled in"),
-	TEST_CASE_REASON("builtin clang compile C source to ELF object",
-			 clang_to_obj,
-			 "not compiled in"),
-	{ .name = NULL, }
-};
-
-struct test_suite suite__clang = {
-	.desc = "builtin clang support",
-	.test_cases = clang_tests,
-};
diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/make b/tools/perf/tests/make
index 58cf96d762d0..ea4c341f5af1 100644
--- a/tools/perf/tests/make
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/make
@@ -95,7 +95,6 @@ make_with_babeltrace:= LIBBABELTRACE=1
 make_with_coresight := CORESIGHT=1
 make_no_sdt	    := NO_SDT=1
 make_no_syscall_tbl := NO_SYSCALL_TABLE=1
-make_with_clangllvm := LIBCLANGLLVM=1
 make_no_libpfm4     := NO_LIBPFM4=1
 make_with_gtk2      := GTK2=1
 make_refcnt_check   := EXTRA_CFLAGS="-DREFCNT_CHECKING=1"