From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>,
bpf <bpf@vger.kernel.org>, Networking <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/1 v2] Documentation: Add minimum pahole version
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2021 15:56:03 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YZfzQ0DvHD5o26Bt@kernel.org> (raw)
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
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YZPQ6+u2wTHRfR+W@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
---
Documentation/process/changes.rst | 11 +++++++++++
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
index e35ab74a0f804b04..572465db0db19e8f 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 +109,16 @@ Bison
Since Linux 4.16, the build system generates parsers
during build. This requires bison 2.0 or later.
+pahole:
+-------
+
+Since Linux 5.2, if CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF is selected, the build system
+generates BTF (BPF Type Format) from DWARF in vmlinux, a bit later from kernel
+modules as well. 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
next reply other threads:[~2021-11-19 18:56 UTC|newest]
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2021-11-19 18:56 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
2021-11-29 21:48 ` [PATCH 1/1 v2] Documentation: Add minimum pahole version Jonathan Corbet
2021-11-30 14:38 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
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