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[v4,2/4] deb-pkg: split debug symbols in their own package

Message ID 1367941611-12223-3-git-send-email-anisse@astier.eu
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Anisse Astier May 7, 2013, 3:46 p.m. UTC
This can reduce almost 3 times the size of the linux-image package,
while keeping the debug symbols available for this particular build, in
their own package.

This mimics the way kernels are built in debian, ubuntu, or with
make-kpkg, and comes at the price of a small slowdown in the building of
packages.

Signed-off-by: Anisse Astier <anisse@astier.eu>
---
 scripts/package/builddeb | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Ben Hutchings May 8, 2013, 3:14 a.m. UTC | #1
On Tue, 2013-05-07 at 17:46 +0200, Anisse Astier wrote:
> This can reduce almost 3 times the size of the linux-image package,
> while keeping the debug symbols available for this particular build, in
> their own package.
> 
> This mimics the way kernels are built in debian, ubuntu, or with
> make-kpkg, and comes at the price of a small slowdown in the building of
> packages.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anisse Astier <anisse@astier.eu>
> ---
>  scripts/package/builddeb | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/package/builddeb b/scripts/package/builddeb
> index 2d84671..797484b 100644
> --- a/scripts/package/builddeb
> +++ b/scripts/package/builddeb
> @@ -78,17 +78,21 @@ tmpdir="$objtree/debian/tmp"
>  fwdir="$objtree/debian/fwtmp"
>  kernel_headers_dir="$objtree/debian/hdrtmp"
>  libc_headers_dir="$objtree/debian/headertmp"
> +dbg_dir="$objtree/debian/dbgtmp"
>  packagename=linux-image-$version
>  fwpackagename=linux-firmware-image
>  kernel_headers_packagename=linux-headers-$version
>  libc_headers_packagename=linux-libc-dev
> +dbg_packagename=$packagename-dbg
>  
>  if [ "$ARCH" = "um" ] ; then
>  	packagename=user-mode-linux-$version
>  fi
>  
> +BUILD_DEBUG="$(grep -s '^CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y' $objtree/$KCONFIG_CONFIG || true)"

As in the previous patch, you can omit $objtree/ here.

[...]
> @@ -128,6 +136,20 @@ if grep -q '^CONFIG_MODULES=y' $objtree/$KCONFIG_CONFIG ; then
>  		mv "$tmpdir/lib/modules/$version"/* "$tmpdir/usr/lib/uml/modules/$version/"
>  		rmdir "$tmpdir/lib/modules/$version"
>  	fi
> +	if [ -n "$BUILD_DEBUG" ] ; then
> +		(
> +			cd $tmpdir
> +			for module in $(find lib/modules/ -name *.ko); do

What if this is a non-modular kernel?

[...] 
> +if [ -n "$BUILD_DEBUG" ] ; then
> +	# Build debug package
> +	mkdir -p $dbg_dir/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/$version/
> +	cp vmlinux $dbg_dir/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/$version/
[...]

Different tools have different ideas about where vmlinux debuginfo
should be.  What I ended up doing in Debian's own kernel debug packages
in wheezy was installing/symlinking to all of:

/usr/lib/debug/boot/vmlinux-$version        [systemtap]
/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/$version/vmlinux [perf]
/usr/lib/debug/vmlinux-$version             [kdump-tools]

So unless anyone has a better suggestion I think you'd better do the
same here.

(But really, the Linux development community ought to agree on a single
canonical path format that all such tools will support.)

Ben.
Anisse Astier May 20, 2013, 1:34 p.m. UTC | #2
Hi Ben,

On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 5:14 AM, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-05-07 at 17:46 +0200, Anisse Astier wrote:
>> This can reduce almost 3 times the size of the linux-image package,
>> while keeping the debug symbols available for this particular build, in
>> their own package.
>>
>> This mimics the way kernels are built in debian, ubuntu, or with
>> make-kpkg, and comes at the price of a small slowdown in the building of
>> packages.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Anisse Astier <anisse@astier.eu>
>> ---
>>  scripts/package/builddeb | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>>  1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/scripts/package/builddeb b/scripts/package/builddeb
>> index 2d84671..797484b 100644
>> --- a/scripts/package/builddeb
>> +++ b/scripts/package/builddeb
>> @@ -78,17 +78,21 @@ tmpdir="$objtree/debian/tmp"
>>  fwdir="$objtree/debian/fwtmp"
>>  kernel_headers_dir="$objtree/debian/hdrtmp"
>>  libc_headers_dir="$objtree/debian/headertmp"
>> +dbg_dir="$objtree/debian/dbgtmp"
>>  packagename=linux-image-$version
>>  fwpackagename=linux-firmware-image
>>  kernel_headers_packagename=linux-headers-$version
>>  libc_headers_packagename=linux-libc-dev
>> +dbg_packagename=$packagename-dbg
>>
>>  if [ "$ARCH" = "um" ] ; then
>>       packagename=user-mode-linux-$version
>>  fi
>>
>> +BUILD_DEBUG="$(grep -s '^CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y' $objtree/$KCONFIG_CONFIG || true)"
>
> As in the previous patch, you can omit $objtree/ here.
>
> [...]
>> @@ -128,6 +136,20 @@ if grep -q '^CONFIG_MODULES=y' $objtree/$KCONFIG_CONFIG ; then
>>               mv "$tmpdir/lib/modules/$version"/* "$tmpdir/usr/lib/uml/modules/$version/"
>>               rmdir "$tmpdir/lib/modules/$version"
>>       fi
>> +     if [ -n "$BUILD_DEBUG" ] ; then
>> +             (
>> +                     cd $tmpdir
>> +                     for module in $(find lib/modules/ -name *.ko); do
>
> What if this is a non-modular kernel?

It's not entirely apparent in the diff, but this code is inside an if
checking CONFIG_MODULES..

>
> [...]
>> +if [ -n "$BUILD_DEBUG" ] ; then
>> +     # Build debug package
>> +     mkdir -p $dbg_dir/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/$version/
>> +     cp vmlinux $dbg_dir/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/$version/
> [...]
>
> Different tools have different ideas about where vmlinux debuginfo
> should be.  What I ended up doing in Debian's own kernel debug packages
> in wheezy was installing/symlinking to all of:
>
> /usr/lib/debug/boot/vmlinux-$version        [systemtap]
> /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/$version/vmlinux [perf]
> /usr/lib/debug/vmlinux-$version             [kdump-tools]
>
> So unless anyone has a better suggestion I think you'd better do the
> same here.
>
> (But really, the Linux development community ought to agree on a single
> canonical path format that all such tools will support.)

I'll add the symlinks for the next iteration.

Thanks a lot for your review time.

Anisse
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diff --git a/scripts/package/builddeb b/scripts/package/builddeb
index 2d84671..797484b 100644
--- a/scripts/package/builddeb
+++ b/scripts/package/builddeb
@@ -78,17 +78,21 @@  tmpdir="$objtree/debian/tmp"
 fwdir="$objtree/debian/fwtmp"
 kernel_headers_dir="$objtree/debian/hdrtmp"
 libc_headers_dir="$objtree/debian/headertmp"
+dbg_dir="$objtree/debian/dbgtmp"
 packagename=linux-image-$version
 fwpackagename=linux-firmware-image
 kernel_headers_packagename=linux-headers-$version
 libc_headers_packagename=linux-libc-dev
+dbg_packagename=$packagename-dbg
 
 if [ "$ARCH" = "um" ] ; then
 	packagename=user-mode-linux-$version
 fi
 
+BUILD_DEBUG="$(grep -s '^CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y' $objtree/$KCONFIG_CONFIG || true)"
+
 # Setup the directory structure
-rm -rf "$tmpdir" "$fwdir" "$kernel_headers_dir" "$libc_headers_dir"
+rm -rf "$tmpdir" "$fwdir" "$kernel_headers_dir" "$libc_headers_dir" "$dbg_dir"
 mkdir -m 755 -p "$tmpdir/DEBIAN"
 mkdir -p  "$tmpdir/lib" "$tmpdir/boot" "$tmpdir/usr/share/doc/$packagename"
 mkdir -m 755 -p "$fwdir/DEBIAN"
@@ -101,6 +105,10 @@  mkdir -p "$kernel_headers_dir/lib/modules/$version/"
 if [ "$ARCH" = "um" ] ; then
 	mkdir -p "$tmpdir/usr/lib/uml/modules/$version" "$tmpdir/usr/bin"
 fi
+if [ -n "$BUILD_DEBUG" ] ; then
+	mkdir -p "$dbg_dir/usr/share/doc/$dbg_packagename"
+	mkdir -m 755 -p "$dbg_dir/DEBIAN"
+fi
 
 # Build and install the kernel
 if [ "$ARCH" = "um" ] ; then
@@ -128,6 +136,20 @@  if grep -q '^CONFIG_MODULES=y' $objtree/$KCONFIG_CONFIG ; then
 		mv "$tmpdir/lib/modules/$version"/* "$tmpdir/usr/lib/uml/modules/$version/"
 		rmdir "$tmpdir/lib/modules/$version"
 	fi
+	if [ -n "$BUILD_DEBUG" ] ; then
+		(
+			cd $tmpdir
+			for module in $(find lib/modules/ -name *.ko); do
+				mkdir -p $(dirname $dbg_dir/usr/lib/debug/$module)
+				# only keep debug symbols in the debug file
+				objcopy --only-keep-debug $module $dbg_dir/usr/lib/debug/$module
+				# strip original module from debug symbols
+				objcopy --strip-debug $module
+				# then add a link to those
+				objcopy --add-gnu-debuglink=$dbg_dir/usr/lib/debug/$module $module
+			done
+		)
+	fi
 fi
 
 if [ "$ARCH" != "um" ]; then
@@ -299,4 +321,23 @@  fi
 
 create_package "$packagename" "$tmpdir"
 
+if [ -n "$BUILD_DEBUG" ] ; then
+	# Build debug package
+	mkdir -p $dbg_dir/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/$version/
+	cp vmlinux $dbg_dir/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/$version/
+
+	cat <<EOF >> debian/control
+
+Package: $dbg_packagename
+Section: debug
+Provides: linux-debug, linux-debug-$version
+Architecture: any
+Description: Linux kernel debugging symbols for $version
+ This package will come in handy if you need to debug the kernel. It provides
+ all the necessary debug symbols for the kernel and its modules.
+EOF
+
+	create_package "$dbg_packagename" "$dbg_dir"
+fi
+
 exit 0