Re: [PATCH v2] docs: changes.rst: set the pahole minimum back to 1.22

From: Jonathan Corbet

Date: Mon Nov 02 2026 - 12:47:55 EST


Mark Severson <gr3yf0x87@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Commit fd5425b67355 ("docs, resolve_btfids: Document kfunc BTF
> annotation emission") removed the paragraph saying that kfuncs annotated
> with KF_IMPLICIT_ARGS need pahole v1.26, because resolve_btfids now
> emits the kfunc BTF annotations that pahole used to produce. That
> paragraph was the reason the requirements table lists pahole 1.26, and
> the table was left unchanged. The text below the table and
> lib/Kconfig.debug (DEBUG_INFO_BTF depends on PAHOLE_VERSION >= 122)
> both still say 1.22.
>
> Set the table back to 1.22, in the English document and in the Italian
> translation, which carries the same table, and remove the Italian
> translation's copy of the paragraph that the English document no longer
> has.
>
> Checked by building linux-next 20261021 with pahole v1.25 and
> CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y: in the vmlinux BTF,
> bpf_task_work_schedule_signal has four arguments and the bpf_kfunc decl
> tag, and bpf_task_work_schedule_signal_impl keeps the
> struct bpf_prog_aux * argument, as Documentation/bpf/kfuncs.rst
> describes for KF_IMPLICIT_ARGS.

I've applied this patch, but removed that last paragraph, which doesn't
really belong in the permanent changelog.

> Fixes: fd5425b67355 ("docs, resolve_btfids: Document kfunc BTF annotation emission")
> Assisted-by: Claude

This line is no longer required, so I took it out as well.

> Signed-off-by: Mark Severson <gr3yf0x87@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,

jon