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From: Hemanth Malla <vmalla@linux.microsoft.com>
To: bpf@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: ast@kernel.org, daniel@iogearbox.net, andrii@kernel.org,
	martin.lau@linux.dev, eddyz87@gmail.com, song@kernel.org,
	yonghong.song@linux.dev, john.fastabend@gmail.com,
	kpsingh@kernel.org, sdf@fomichev.me, haoluo@google.com,
	jolsa@kernel.org, vmalla@microsoft.com, corbet@lwn.net
Subject: [PATCH bpf-next] bpf, docs: Update pahole to 1.28 for selftests
Date: Fri,  2 Jan 2026 03:13:35 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1767352415-24862-1-git-send-email-vmalla@linux.microsoft.com> (raw)

From: Hemanth Malla <vmalla@microsoft.com>

pahole 1.16 doesn't seem to be to sufficient anymore for running bpf
selftests.

Signed-off-by: Hemanth Malla <vmalla@microsoft.com>
---
 Documentation/bpf/bpf_devel_QA.rst | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/bpf/bpf_devel_QA.rst b/Documentation/bpf/bpf_devel_QA.rst
index 0acb4c9b8d90..3a147b6c780e 100644
--- a/Documentation/bpf/bpf_devel_QA.rst
+++ b/Documentation/bpf/bpf_devel_QA.rst
@@ -482,7 +482,7 @@ under test should match the config file fragment in
 tools/testing/selftests/bpf as closely as possible.
 
 Finally to ensure support for latest BPF Type Format features -
-discussed in Documentation/bpf/btf.rst - pahole version 1.16
+discussed in Documentation/bpf/btf.rst - pahole version 1.28
 is required for kernels built with CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y.
 pahole is delivered in the dwarves package or can be built
 from source at
@@ -502,9 +502,6 @@ codes from
 
 https://fedorapeople.org/~acme/dwarves
 
-Some distros have pahole version 1.16 packaged already, e.g.
-Fedora, Gentoo.
-
 Q: Which BPF kernel selftests version should I run my kernel against?
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 A: If you run a kernel ``xyz``, then always run the BPF kernel selftests
-- 
2.43.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-01-02 11:14 UTC|newest]

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2026-01-02 11:13 Hemanth Malla [this message]
2026-01-02 15:33 ` [PATCH bpf-next] bpf, docs: Update pahole to 1.28 for selftests Ihor Solodrai

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