On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 7:08 PM Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. Yeah, I actually agree, on the second though, no real reason to put it in pahole.
