Subject: [PATCH 1/1 v2] Documentation: Add minimum pahole version

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2021 15:56:03 -0300

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
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email-masked]>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <[email-masked]>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <[email-masked]>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <[email-masked]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email-masked]>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked]
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email-masked]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email-masked]>
---
 Documentation/process/changes.rst | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
index e35ab74a0f804b04..572465db0db19e8f 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
@@ -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:
+-------
+
+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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