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From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Mark Severson <gr3yf0x87@skyn3tlab.com>,
	Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
	Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev>,
	Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>,
	workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	bpf@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] docs: changes.rst: set the pahole minimum back to 1.22
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2026 09:21:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pkwncih7.fsf@trenco.lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261022014811.2803450-1-gr3yf0x87@skyn3tlab.com>

Mark Severson <gr3yf0x87@skyn3tlab.com> 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@skyn3tlab.com>

Thanks,

jon

      parent reply	other threads:[~2026-11-02 16:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-22  1:34 [PATCH] " Mark Severson
2026-10-22  1:48 ` [PATCH v2] " Mark Severson
2026-10-24 10:09   ` Nguyen Duc Thinh
2026-10-25 13:22   ` Daniel Pereira
2026-10-25 20:20   ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2026-11-02 16:21   ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]

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