"Daniel Xu" <[email protected]> writes:

> On Sun, Feb 28, 2021, at 12:07 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>> Hi, 
>> 
>> I'm looking into BTF and it's use case. Based on the document I 
>> understood to run BPF programs across different kernel versions, it 
>> needs to build with libbpf which depends on the BTF information. 
>> Now to enable/to have BTF information on any Kernel, the kernel needs 
>> to be re-build with "" flag. 
>> 
>> I can see the BTF support in Linus introduced from *kernel version 
>> 5.1.0  
>> (*https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.1/bpf/btf.html?highlight=btf)
>> however I can still see the BTF information(/sys/kernel/btf/vmlinux) on 
>> my 4.18.0-193.28.1.el8_2.x86_64 kernel.
>
> What distro are you using? Your distro probably backported BTF
> support.

Yeah, that's a RHEL version number (RHEL8.2 in this case, as seen by the
"el8_2" bit). Which means that as far as features are concerned, the
4.18 version number is basically a complete fiction at this point. For
BPF we basically backport everything, IIRC we made it up to upstream
kernel 5.4 for RHEL8.2...

-Toke



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