On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 5:47 PM Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On June 18, 2020 9:40:32 PM GMT-03:00, Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 3:06 AM Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> The btfid tool will be used during the vmlinux linking, > >> so it's necessary it's ready for it. > >> > > > >Seeing troubles John runs into, I wonder if it maybe would be better > >to add it to pahole instead? It's already a dependency for anything > >BTF-related in the kernel. It has libelf, libbpf linked and set up. > >WDYT? I've cc'ed Arnaldo as well for an opinion. > > I was reading this thread with a low prio, but my gut feeling was that yeah, since pahole is already there, why not have it do this? > > I'll try to look at this tomorrow and see if this is more than just a hunch. I think it's better to keep it separate like Jiri did. It is really vmlinux specific as far as I can see and can change in the future.
