[PATCH] powerpc/vdso: Add support for unstripped vDSO installation

Thomas Weißschuh linux at weissschuh.net
Sat Mar 21 07:50:03 AEDT 2026


'make vdso_install' can install the unstripped vDSO files,
so that they can be shipped to the target system for debugging purposes.

Add the necessary variables so this also works on PowerPC.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux at weissschuh.net>
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Adding a build ID to the vdso with --build-id=sha1 would also make
debugging easier.
And then add powerpc to scripts/Makefile.vdsoinst, or wait for [0].

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260320-kbuild-vdso-install-v1-0-e2e8a0970889@weissschuh.net/
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 arch/powerpc/Makefile | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Makefile b/arch/powerpc/Makefile
index a58b1029592c..ca25dffc28fb 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Makefile
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Makefile
@@ -391,6 +391,10 @@ vdso_prepare: prepare0
 		$(build)=arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso include/generated/vdso64-offsets.h)
 endif
 
+vdso-install-$(CONFIG_PPC32)	+= arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/vdso32.so.dbg
+vdso-install-$(CONFIG_PPC64)	+= arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/vdso64.so.dbg
+vdso-install-$(CONFIG_COMPAT)	+= arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/vdso32.so.dbg
+
 archprepare: checkbin
 
 archheaders:

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base-commit: 6de23f81a5e08be8fbf5e8d7e9febc72a5b5f27f
change-id: 20260318-powerpc-vdso-install-847443f7712f

Best regards,
-- 
Thomas Weißschuh <linux at weissschuh.net>



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