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Documentation: Add minimum pahole version

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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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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 2021-11-19 15:56:03 -03:00 committed by Jonathan Corbet
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@ -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:
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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
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