kbuild: cross-compile linux-headers package when possible
A long standing issue in the upstream kernel packaging is that the linux-headers package is not cross-compiled. For example, you can cross-build Debian packages for arm64 by running the following command: $ make ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- bindeb-pkg However, the generated linux-headers-*_arm64.deb is useless because the host programs in it were built for your build machine architecture (likely x86), not arm64. The Debian kernel maintains its own Makefiles to cross-compile host tools without relying on Kbuild. [1] Instead of adding such full custom Makefiles, this commit adds a small piece of code to cross-compile host programs located under the scripts/ directory. A straightforward solution is to pass HOSTCC=${CROSS_COMPILE}gcc, but it would also cross-compile scripts/basic/fixdep, which needs to be native to process the if_changed_dep macro. (This approach may work under some circumstances; you can execute foreign architecture programs with the help of binfmt_misc because Debian systems enable CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC, but it would require installing QEMU and libc for that architecture.) A trick is to use the external module build (KBUILD_EXTMOD=), which does not rebuild scripts/basic/fixdep. ${CC} needs to be able to link userspace programs (CONFIG_CC_CAN_LINK=y). There are known limitations: - GCC plugins It would possible to rebuild GCC plugins for the target architecture by passing HOSTCXX=${CROSS_COMPILE}g++ with necessary packages installed, but gcc on the installed system emits "cc1: error: incompatible gcc/plugin versions". - objtool and resolve_btfids These are built by the tools build system. They are not covered by the current solution. The resulting linux-headers package is broken if CONFIG_OBJTOOL or CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF is enabled. I only tested this with Debian, but it should work for other package systems as well. [1]: https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/blob/debian/6.9.9-1/debian/rules.real#L586Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>
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