Add pahole utility needed for BTF generation in our kernels #171
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Motivation
bpftrace
has had BTF support for a while (ref: https://github.com/iovisor/bpftrace/blob/master/docs/reference_guide.md#btf-support). We currently have in-place a few hacks to include ZFS (and other?) headers in our bpftrace package so we can use the type information on our scripts. If we had BTF info on our kernels we would no longer need those hacks for ZFS (and any other kernel modules really).This Patch
This PR includes the
pahole(1)
utilty that is part of thedwarves
package from Canonical. This utility will be automatically used by our kernel builds when we enable theCONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF
config flag on our kernels, to generate BTF info.Testing
TBA