bpf: Document the pahole release info related to libbpf in bpf_devel_QA.rst

pahole starts to use libbpf definitions and APIs since v1.13 after the
commit 21507cd3e97b ("pahole: add libbpf as submodule under lib/bpf").
It works well with the git repository because the libbpf submodule will
use "git submodule update --init --recursive" to update.

Unfortunately, the default github release source code does not contain
libbpf submodule source code and this will cause build issues, the tarball
from https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/devel/pahole/pahole.git/ is same with
github, you can get the source tarball with corresponding libbpf submodule
codes from

https://fedorapeople.org/~acme/dwarves

This change documents the above issues to give more information so that
we can get the tarball from the right place, early discussion is here:

https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/2de4aad5-fa9e-1c39-3c92-9bb9229d0966@loongson.cn/

Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/1619141010-12521-1-git-send-email-yangtiezhu@loongson.cn
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https://github.com/acmel/dwarves
pahole starts to use libbpf definitions and APIs since v1.13 after the
commit 21507cd3e97b ("pahole: add libbpf as submodule under lib/bpf").
It works well with the git repository because the libbpf submodule will
use "git submodule update --init --recursive" to update.
Unfortunately, the default github release source code does not contain
libbpf submodule source code and this will cause build issues, the tarball
from https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/devel/pahole/pahole.git/ is same with
github, you can get the source tarball with corresponding libbpf submodule
codes from
https://fedorapeople.org/~acme/dwarves
Some distros have pahole version 1.16 packaged already, e.g.
Fedora, Gentoo.