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Documentation: Add minimum pahole version
A report was made in acmel/dwarves#26 about pahole not being listed in the process/changes.rst file as being needed for building the kernel, address that. Link: acmel/dwarves#26 Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <[email protected]> Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
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@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ GNU make 3.81 make --version
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binutils 2.23 ld -v
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flex 2.5.35 flex --version
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bison 2.0 bison --version
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pahole 1.16 pahole --version
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util-linux 2.10o fdformat --version
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kmod 13 depmod -V
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e2fsprogs 1.41.4 e2fsck -V
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Since Linux 4.16, the build system generates parsers
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during build. This requires bison 2.0 or later.
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pahole:
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Since Linux 5.2, if CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF is selected, the build system
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generates BTF (BPF Type Format) from DWARF in vmlinux, a bit later from kernel
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modules as well. This requires pahole v1.16 or later.
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It is found in the 'dwarves' or 'pahole' distro packages or from
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https://fedorapeople.org/~acme/dwarves/.
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