Probably leftover from the time we introducd the check-headers.sh script.
Committer testing:
Remove the 'rseq' syscall from tools/perf/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl
to fake a diff:
make: Entering directory '/home/acme/git/perf/tools/perf'
  BUILD:   Doing 'make -j4' parallel build
Warning: Kernel ABI header at 'tools/perf/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl' differs from latest version at 'arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl'
diff -u tools/perf/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl
  CC       /tmp/build/perf/util/syscalltbl.o
  INSTALL  trace_plugins
<SNIP>
  $ diff -u tools/perf/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl
  --- tools/perf/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl	2018-08-13 15:49:50.
896585176 -0300
  +++ arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl	2018-07-20 12:04:04.
536858304 -0300
  @@ -342,6 +342,7 @@
   331	common	pkey_free		__x64_sys_pkey_free
   332	common	statx			__x64_sys_statx
   333	common	io_pgetevents		__x64_sys_io_pgetevents
  +334	common	rseq			__x64_sys_rseq
  #
  # x32-specific system call numbers start at 512 to avoid cache impact
  $
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180813111504.3568-2-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
 _dummy := $(shell [ -d '$(out)' ] || mkdir -p '$(out)')
 
 $(header): $(sys)/syscall_64.tbl $(systbl)
-       @(test -d ../../kernel -a -d ../../tools -a -d ../perf && ( \
-        (diff -B arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl ../../arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl >/dev/null) \
-        || echo "Warning: Kernel ABI header at 'tools/perf/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl' differs from latest version at 'arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl'" >&2 )) || true
        $(Q)$(SHELL) '$(systbl)' $(sys)/syscall_64.tbl 'x86_64' > $@
 
 clean::
 
 check include/uapi/asm-generic/mman.h '-I "^#include <\(uapi/\)*asm-generic/mman-common.h>"'
 check include/uapi/linux/mman.h       '-I "^#include <\(uapi/\)*asm/mman.h>"'
 
+# diff non-symmetric files
+check_2 tools/perf/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl
+
 cd tools/perf