Re: [PATCHv4 0/3] Salted build ids via linker sections

[Michael Ellerman]

Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Hi,
>
> This is v4 of the series to allow unique build ids in the kernel. As a
> reminder of the context:
>
> ""
> In Fedora, the debug information is packaged separately (foo-debuginfo) and
> can be installed separately. There's been a long standing issue where only one
> version of a debuginfo info package can be installed at a time. Mark Wielaard
> made an effort for Fedora 27 to allow parallel installation of debuginfo (see
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ParallelInstallableDebuginfo for
> more details)
>
> Part of the requirement to allow this to work is that build ids are
> unique between builds. The existing upstream rpm implementation ensures
> this by re-calculating the build-id using the version and release as a
> seed. This doesn't work 100% for the kernel because of the vDSO which is
> its own binary and doesn't get updated. After poking holes in a few of my
> ideas, there was a discussion with some people from the binutils team about
> adding --build-id-salt to let ld do the calculation debugedit is doing. There
> was a counter proposal made to add in the salt while building. The
> easiest proposal was to add an item in the linker script vs. linking in
> an object since we need the salt to go in every module as well as the
> kernel and vmlinux.
> ""
>
> v4 takes Linus' suggestion of using linker fill to insert the build id.
> This removes the need to use a generated header which makes things much
> easier. One change is that because this section isn't .comment it won't
> get stripped automatically. This is pretty small but I also know people
> can be picky so I'm open to opinions or suggestions here.
>
> Laura Abbott (3):
>   scripts: Preprocess module-common.lds
>   kbuild: Introduce build-salt linker section and config option
>   x86: Add build salt to the vDSO and kernel linker scripts

Hi Laura,

Here's a patch to get it working on powerpc. Seems to work as expected.

cheers