Use --build-id ld option

This change passes the --build-id when linking the kernel and when linking
modules, if ld supports it.  This is a new GNU ld option that synthesizes an
ELF note section inside the read-only data.  The note in this section contains
unique identifying bits called the "build ID", which are generated so as to be
different for any two linked ELF files that aren't identical.  The build ID
can be recovered from stripped files, memory dumps, etc.  and used to look up
the original program built, locate debuginfo or other details or history
associated with it.  For normal program linking, the compiler passes
--build-id to ld by default, but the option is needed when using ld directly
as we do.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index ddbfcac299c1c587c2e9f5d172bfb3e052b12118..eccb03b88b8d6f88c59540d93bd6c1bb68e117f6 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -514,6 +514,12 @@ CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-Wdeclaration-after-statement,)
 # disable pointer signed / unsigned warnings in gcc 4.0
 CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-Wno-pointer-sign,)
 
+# Use --build-id when available.
+LDFLAGS_BUILD_ID = $(patsubst -Wl$(comma)%,%,\
+                             $(call ld-option, -Wl$(comma)--build-id,))
+LDFLAGS_MODULE += $(LDFLAGS_BUILD_ID)
+LDFLAGS_vmlinux += $(LDFLAGS_BUILD_ID)
+
 # Default kernel image to build when no specific target is given.
 # KBUILD_IMAGE may be overruled on the command line or
 # set in the environment