Re: [PATCH bpf-next] bpf: Document the pahole release info related to libbpf in bpf_devel_QA.rst

[Yonghong Song]

On 4/22/21 6:23 PM, Tiezhu Yang wrote:
> 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@xxxxxxxxxxx/
>
> Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   Documentation/bpf/bpf_devel_QA.rst | 13 +++++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/bpf/bpf_devel_QA.rst b/Documentation/bpf/bpf_devel_QA.rst
> index d05e67e..253496a 100644
> --- a/Documentation/bpf/bpf_devel_QA.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/bpf/bpf_devel_QA.rst
> @@ -449,6 +449,19 @@ from source at
>   
>   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
> +

Arnaldo, could you take a look at this patch? Thanks!

>   Some distros have pahole version 1.16 packaged already, e.g.
>   Fedora, Gentoo.
>