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
next prev 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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