On 10/16/18 11:27 AM, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 11:54:20AM -0700, Yonghong Song wrote:
>> The BTF support was added to kernel by Commit 69b693f0aefa
>> ("bpf: btf: Introduce BPF Type Format (BTF)"), which introduced
>> .BTF section into ELF file and is primarily
>> used for map pretty print.
>> pahole is used to convert dwarf to BTF for ELF files.
>>
>> The next step would be add func type info and debug line info
>> into BTF. For debug line info, it is desirable to encode
>> source code directly in the BTF to ease deployment and
>> introspection.
>
> it's kinda confusing that cover letter talks about line info next step,
> but these kernel side patches are only for full prog name from btf.
> It certainly makes sense for llvm to do both at the same time.
> Please make the cover letter more clear.
Make sense. Will remove line_info stuff from the cover letter.
