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From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
To: x86@kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, live-patching@vger.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>,
	Song Liu <song@kernel.org>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
	Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Subject: [PATCH 14/14] klp-build: Support cross-compilation
Date: Wed,  4 Mar 2026 19:31:33 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <697c09ca0a8ffd545aa875e507502f62ad983419.1772681234.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1772681234.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org>

Add support for cross-compilation.  The user must export ARCH, and
either CROSS_COMPILE or LLVM.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
---
 scripts/livepatch/klp-build | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/livepatch/klp-build b/scripts/livepatch/klp-build
index 809e198a561d..b6c057e2120f 100755
--- a/scripts/livepatch/klp-build
+++ b/scripts/livepatch/klp-build
@@ -404,6 +404,14 @@ validate_patches() {
 	revert_patches
 }
 
+cross_compile_init() {
+	if [[ -v LLVM ]]; then
+		OBJCOPY=llvm-objcopy
+	else
+		OBJCOPY="${CROSS_COMPILE:-}objcopy"
+	fi
+}
+
 do_init() {
 	# We're not yet smart enough to handle anything other than in-tree
 	# builds in pwd.
@@ -420,6 +428,7 @@ do_init() {
 	validate_config
 	set_module_name
 	set_kernelversion
+	cross_compile_init
 }
 
 # Refresh the patch hunk headers, specifically the line numbers and counts.
@@ -783,7 +792,7 @@ build_patch_module() {
 	cp -f "$kmod_file" "$kmod_file.orig"
 
 	# Work around issue where slight .config change makes corrupt BTF
-	objcopy --remove-section=.BTF "$kmod_file"
+	"$OBJCOPY" --remove-section=.BTF "$kmod_file"
 
 	# Fix (and work around) linker wreckage for klp syms / relocs
 	"$SRC/tools/objtool/objtool" klp post-link "$kmod_file" || die "objtool klp post-link failed"
-- 
2.53.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-03-05  3:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-05  3:31 [PATCH 00/14] objtool/arm64: Port klp-build to arm64 Josh Poimboeuf
2026-03-05  3:31 ` [PATCH 01/14] objtool: Fix data alignment in elf_add_data() Josh Poimboeuf
2026-03-09 19:54   ` [tip: objtool/urgent] " tip-bot2 for Josh Poimboeuf
2026-03-05  3:31 ` [PATCH 02/14] objtool: Fix ERROR_INSN() error message Josh Poimboeuf
2026-03-09 19:54   ` [tip: objtool/urgent] " tip-bot2 for Josh Poimboeuf
2026-03-05  3:31 ` [PATCH 03/14] arm64: Annotate intra-function calls Josh Poimboeuf
2026-03-11 23:12   ` Song Liu
2026-03-05  3:31 ` [PATCH 04/14] arm64: head: Move boot header to .head.data Josh Poimboeuf
2026-03-11 23:12   ` Song Liu
2026-03-05  3:31 ` [PATCH 05/14] arm64: Fix EFI linking with -fdata-sections Josh Poimboeuf
2026-03-11 23:12   ` Song Liu
2026-03-05  3:31 ` [PATCH 06/14] crypto: arm64: Move data to .rodata Josh Poimboeuf
2026-03-05  3:31 ` [PATCH 07/14] objtool: Extricate checksum calculation from validate_branch() Josh Poimboeuf
2026-03-10 10:47   ` Miroslav Benes
2026-03-10 16:27     ` Josh Poimboeuf
2026-03-11  8:24       ` Miroslav Benes
2026-03-17 17:21         ` Josh Poimboeuf
2026-03-05  3:31 ` [PATCH 08/14] objtool: Allow setting --mnop without --mcount Josh Poimboeuf
2026-03-11 23:13   ` Song Liu
2026-03-05  3:31 ` [PATCH 09/14] kbuild: Only run objtool if there is at least one command Josh Poimboeuf
2026-03-14  0:45   ` Nathan Chancellor
2026-03-05  3:31 ` [PATCH 10/14] objtool: Ignore jumps to the end of the function for non-CFG arches Josh Poimboeuf
2026-03-11 23:14   ` Song Liu
2026-03-05  3:31 ` [PATCH 11/14] objtool: Allow empty alternatives Josh Poimboeuf
2026-03-11 23:14   ` Song Liu
2026-03-05  3:31 ` [PATCH 12/14] objtool: Reuse consecutive string references Josh Poimboeuf
2026-03-11 23:15   ` Song Liu
2026-03-05  3:31 ` [PATCH 13/14] objtool: Introduce objtool for arm64 Josh Poimboeuf
2026-03-05  3:31 ` Josh Poimboeuf [this message]
2026-03-11 23:18   ` [PATCH 14/14] klp-build: Support cross-compilation Song Liu
2026-03-16 19:15     ` Josh Poimboeuf
2026-03-17 17:52       ` Josh Poimboeuf
2026-03-17 18:21         ` Song Liu
2026-03-17 18:53           ` Josh Poimboeuf
2026-03-17 18:58             ` Song Liu
2026-03-11 23:23 ` [PATCH 00/14] objtool/arm64: Port klp-build to arm64 Song Liu

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