FAILED: patch "[PATCH] tools: Let O= makes handle a relative path with -C option" failed to apply to 4.4-stable tree

The patch below does not apply to the 4.4-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From be40920fbf1003c38ccdc02b571e01a75d890c82 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2020 03:32:58 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] tools: Let O= makes handle a relative path with -C option

When I tried to compile tools/perf from the top directory with the -C option, the O= option didn't work correctly if I passed a relative path:

  $ make O=BUILD -C tools/perf/
  make: Entering directory '/home/mhiramat/ksrc/linux/tools/perf'
    BUILD:   Doing 'make -j8' parallel build
  ../scripts/Makefile.include:4: *** O=/home/mhiramat/ksrc/linux/tools/perf/BUILD does not exist.  Stop.
  make: *** [Makefile:70: all] Error 2
  make: Leaving directory '/home/mhiramat/ksrc/linux/tools/perf'

The O= directory existence check failed because the check script ran in the build target directory instead of the directory where I ran the make command.

To fix that, once change directory to $(PWD) and check O= directory, since the PWD is set to where the make command runs.

index 7902a5681fc8..b8fc7d972be9 100644
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ endif
 # Only pass canonical directory names as the output directory:
 #
 ifneq ($(O),)
-  FULL_O := $(shell readlink -f $(O) || echo $(O))
+  FULL_O := $(shell cd $(PWD); readlink -f $(O) || echo $(O))
 endif
 
 #

index ded7a950dc40..6d2f3a1b2249 100644
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
 ifneq ($(O),)
 ifeq ($(origin O), command line)
-	dummy := $(if $(shell test -d $(O) || echo $(O)),$(error O=$(O) does not exist),)
-	ABSOLUTE_O := $(shell cd $(O) ; pwd)
+	dummy := $(if $(shell cd $(PWD); test -d $(O) || echo $(O)),$(error O=$(O) does not exist),)
+	ABSOLUTE_O := $(shell cd $(PWD); cd $(O) ; pwd)
 	OUTPUT := $(ABSOLUTE_O)/$(if $(subdir),$(subdir)/)
 	COMMAND_O := O=$(ABSOLUTE_O)
 ifeq ($(objtree),)