kernel.bbclass: make KERNEL_DEBUG_TIMESTAMPS work at rebuild

Currently, the KERNEL_DEBUG_TIMESTAMPS is not working as expected
at rebuild. That is, even if we set it to "1", the kernel build time
is not changed. The problem could be reproduced by the following steps.
  1. bitbake core-image-minimal; start image and check `uname -a` output.
  2. set in local.conf: KERNEL_DEBUG_TIMESTAMPS = "1"
  3. bitbake core-image-minimal; start image and check `uname -a` output.

It's expected that after enabling KERNEL_DEBUG_TIMESTAMPS, the kernel
build time will be set to current date. But it's not. This is because
the compile.h was not re-generated when do_compile task was re-executed.

In mkcompile_h, we have:
"""
 # Only replace the real compile.h if the new one is different,
 # in order to preserve the timestamp and avoid unnecessary
 # recompilations.
 # We don't consider the file changed if only the date/time changed,
 # unless KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP was explicitly set (e.g. for
 # reproducible builds with that value referring to a commit timestamp).
 # A kernel config change will increase the generation number, thus
 # causing compile.h to be updated (including date/time) due to the
 # changed comment in the
 # first line.
"""
It has made it very clear that it will not be re-generated unless
we have KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP set explicitly. So we set this variable
explicitly in do_compile to fix this issue.

(From OE-Core rev: 1b68c2d2d385013a1c535ef81172494302a36d74)

Signed-off-by: Chen Qi <Qi.Chen@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes-recipe/kernel.bbclass b/meta/classes-recipe/kernel.bbclass
index 3834a42fb9..3f6b40907f 100644
--- a/meta/classes-recipe/kernel.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes-recipe/kernel.bbclass
@@ -367,6 +367,10 @@ kernel_do_compile() {
                 export KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP="$ts"
                 export KCONFIG_NOTIMESTAMP=1
                 bbnote "KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP: $ts"
+        else
+                ts=`LC_ALL=C date`
+                export KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP="$ts"
+                bbnote "KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP: $ts"
         fi
         # The $use_alternate_initrd is only set from
         # do_bundle_initramfs() This variable is specifically for the
@@ -412,6 +416,10 @@ do_compile_kernelmodules() {
                 export KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP="$ts"
                 export KCONFIG_NOTIMESTAMP=1
                 bbnote "KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP: $ts"
+        else
+                ts=`LC_ALL=C date`
+                export KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP="$ts"
+                bbnote "KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP: $ts"
         fi
         if (grep -q -i -e '^CONFIG_MODULES=y$' ${B}/.config); then
                 oe_runmake -C ${B} ${PARALLEL_MAKE} modules ${KERNEL_EXTRA_ARGS}