"Daniel Xu" <dxu@...> writes:

On Sun, Feb 28, 2021, at 12:07 PM, bg.salunke09@... 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