On 11/16/21 7:21 PM, Andrii Nakryiko wrote:
On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 7:40 AM Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
<acme@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
Cc: bpf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
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
I'd probably emphasize a bit more that pahole is required only if
CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF is selected by moving "If CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF
is selected, " to the front. But either way looks good.
+1, I presume Jonathan will later pick up the v2?
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@xxxxxxxxxx>
+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
