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* [PATCH 1/1] Documentation: Add minimum pahole version
@ 2021-11-16 15:40 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
  2021-11-16 18:21 ` Andrii Nakryiko
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo @ 2021-11-16 15:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jonathan Corbet
  Cc: Alexei Starovoitov, Andrii Nakryiko, Daniel Borkmann, Jiri Olsa,
	bpf, netdev, Linux Kernel Mailing List

A report was made in https://github.com/acmel/dwarves/issues/26 about
pahole not being listed in the process/changes.rst file as being needed
for building the kernel, address that.

Link: https://github.com/acmel/dwarves/issues/26
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
---
 Documentation/process/changes.rst | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
index e35ab74a0f804b04..c45f167a1b6c02a4 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ GNU make               3.81             make --version
 binutils               2.23             ld -v
 flex                   2.5.35           flex --version
 bison                  2.0              bison --version
+pahole                 1.16             pahole --version
 util-linux             2.10o            fdformat --version
 kmod                   13               depmod -V
 e2fsprogs              1.41.4           e2fsck -V
@@ -108,6 +109,14 @@ Bison
 Since Linux 4.16, the build system generates parsers
 during build.  This requires bison 2.0 or later.
 
+pahole:
+-------
+
+Since Linux 5.2 the build system generates BTF (BPF Type Format) from DWARF in
+vmlinux, a bit later from kernel modules as well, if CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF is
+selected.  This requires pahole v1.16 or later. It is found in the 'dwarves' or
+'pahole' distro packages or from https://fedorapeople.org/~acme/dwarves/.
+
 Perl
 ----
 
-- 
2.31.1


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