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Alan Maguire
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Support creation of module BTF along with distilled base BTF; the latter is stored in a .BTF.base ELF section and supplements split BTF references to base BTF with information about base types, allowing for later relocation of split BTF with a (possibly changed) base. resolve_btfids detects the presence of a .BTF.base section and will use it instead of the base BTF it is passed in BTF id resolution. Modules will be built with a distilled .BTF.base section for external module build, i.e. make -C. -M=path2/module ...while in-tree module build as part of a normal kernel build will not generate distilled base BTF; this is because in-tree modules change with the kernel and do not require BTF relocation for the running vmlinux. Signed-off-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240620091733.1967885-6-alan.maguire@oracle.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.