tree 197802c3e70feb364e25123060990898cb8c74a7
parent 092f2c474fe14474874cb3a9d6ec4426df0fd6b6
author Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com> 1623507518 +0100
committer Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 1627456465 +0200

kbuild: mkcompile_h: consider timestamp if KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP is set

[ Upstream commit a979522a1a88556e42a22ce61bccc58e304cb361 ]

To avoid unnecessary recompilations, mkcompile_h does not regenerate
compile.h if just the timestamp changed.
Though, if KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP is set, an explicit timestamp for the
build was requested, in which case we should not ignore it.

If a user follows the documentation for reproducible builds [1] and
defines KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP as the git commit timestamp, a clean
build will have the correct timestamp. A subsequent cherry-pick (or
amend) changes the commit timestamp and if an incremental build is done
with a different KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP now, that new value is not taken
into consideration. But it should for reproducibility.

Hence, whenever KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP is explicitly set, do not ignore
UTS_VERSION when making a decision about whether the regenerated version
of compile.h should be moved into place.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/kbuild/reproducible-builds.html

Signed-off-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>