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authorRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>2007-07-19 01:48:40 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-07-19 10:04:48 -0700
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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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Makefile')
-rw-r--r--Makefile6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index ddbfcac299c1..eccb03b88b8d 100644
--- 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