Documentation: Add minimum pahole version
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 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> Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YZPQ6+u2wTHRfR+W@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YZfzQ0DvHD5o26Bt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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binutils 2.23 ld -v
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binutils 2.23 ld -v
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flex 2.5.35 flex --version
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flex 2.5.35 flex --version
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bison 2.0 bison --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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util-linux 2.10o fdformat --version
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kmod 13 depmod -V
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kmod 13 depmod -V
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e2fsprogs 1.41.4 e2fsck -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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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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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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