[PATCH 2/3] kheaders: rebuild kheaders_data.tar.xz when KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP is changed

From: Masahiro Yamada
Date: Sun Jun 08 2025 - 13:08:06 EST


This problem is similar to commit 7f8256ae0efb ("initramfs: Encode
dependency on KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP"): kernel/gen_kheaders.sh has an
internal dependency on KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP that is not exposed to
make, so changing KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP will not trigger a rebuild
of the archive.

Move $(KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP) to the Makefile so that is is recorded
in the *.cmd file.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

kernel/Makefile | 2 +-
kernel/gen_kheaders.sh | 3 ++-
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/Makefile b/kernel/Makefile
index 9a9ff405ea89..c486f17e669a 100644
--- a/kernel/Makefile
+++ b/kernel/Makefile
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ $(obj)/config_data: $(KCONFIG_CONFIG) FORCE
$(obj)/kheaders.o: $(obj)/kheaders_data.tar.xz

quiet_cmd_kheaders_data = GEN $@
- cmd_kheaders_data = "$<" "$@" "$(obj)/kheaders-srclist" "$(obj)/kheaders-objlist"
+ cmd_kheaders_data = "$<" "$@" "$(obj)/kheaders-srclist" "$(obj)/kheaders-objlist" "$(KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP)"
cmd_kheaders_data_dep = cat $(depfile) >> $(dot-target).cmd; rm -f $(depfile)

define rule_kheaders_data
diff --git a/kernel/gen_kheaders.sh b/kernel/gen_kheaders.sh
index 0ff7beabb21a..919bdcf989f4 100755
--- a/kernel/gen_kheaders.sh
+++ b/kernel/gen_kheaders.sh
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ set -e
tarfile=$1
srclist=$2
objlist=$3
+timestamp=$4

dir=$(dirname "${tarfile}")
tmpdir=${dir}/.tmp_dir
@@ -42,7 +43,7 @@ xargs -0 -P8 -n1 \
rm -f "${tmpdir}.contents.txt"

# Create archive and try to normalize metadata for reproducibility.
-tar "${KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP:+--mtime=$KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP}" \
+tar "${timestamp:+--mtime=$timestamp}" \
--owner=0 --group=0 --sort=name --numeric-owner --mode=u=rw,go=r,a+X \
-I $XZ -cf $tarfile -C "${tmpdir}/" . > /dev/null

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