build: Allow kernel modules to set build ID debug symbol

This change adds support for specifying a build ID for kernel modules.
This is done by setting PKG_BUILD_ID to a hexadecimal string, which will
then be passed to the kernel linker. In addition, when this flag is set,
the build ID debug symbol (.note.gnu.build-id) will not be stripped from
the kernel module. This symbol is exported in sysfs by the kernel (if
the kernel is compiled with CONFIG_KALLSYMS) and so can be used to
uniquely identify a version of a kernel module in a running kernel. This
is useful for keeping track of different versions of a module when doing
experiments and development.

Modules that specify the build ID will be ~100 bytes larger (depending
on the length of the build ID specified). There is no size difference
for kernel modules that do not set this variable.

Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk>

SVN-Revision: 47290

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/strip-kmod.sh b/scripts/strip-kmod.sh
index 13e6b58007..e3f13bee47 100755
--- a/scripts/strip-kmod.sh
+++ b/scripts/strip-kmod.sh
@@ -18,11 +18,14 @@ else
 	ARGS="-x -G __this_module --strip-unneeded"
 fi
 
+if [ -z "$KEEP_BUILD_ID" ]; then
+    ARGS="$ARGS -R .note.gnu.build-id"
+fi
+
 ${CROSS}objcopy \
 	-R .comment \
 	-R .pdr \
 	-R .mdebug.abi32 \
-	-R .note.gnu.build-id \
 	-R .gnu.attributes \
 	-R .reginfo \
 	$ARGS \