- Remove relocation information from vmlinux as it is not needed by

other tooling and thus a slimmer binary is generated. This is
   important for distros who have to distribute vmlinux blobs with their
   kernel packages too and that extraneous unnecessary data bloats them
   for no good reason
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Merge tag 'x86_build_for_v6.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull x86 build update from Borislav Petkov:

 - Remove relocation information from vmlinux as it is not needed by
   other tooling and thus a slimmer binary is generated.

   This is important for distros who have to distribute vmlinux blobs
   with their kernel packages too and that extraneous unnecessary data
   bloats them for no good reason

* tag 'x86_build_for_v6.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/build: Avoid relocation information in final vmlinux

arch/x86/Makefile.postlink

@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+# ===========================================================================
+# Post-link x86 pass
+# ===========================================================================
+#
+# 1. Separate relocations from vmlinux into vmlinux.relocs.
+# 2. Strip relocations from vmlinux.
+
+PHONY := __archpost
+__archpost:
+
+-include include/config/auto.conf
+include $(srctree)/scripts/Kbuild.include
+
+CMD_RELOCS = arch/x86/tools/relocs
+OUT_RELOCS = arch/x86/boot/compressed
+quiet_cmd_relocs = RELOCS  $(OUT_RELOCS)/$@.relocs
+      cmd_relocs = \
+	mkdir -p $(OUT_RELOCS); \
+	$(CMD_RELOCS) $@ > $(OUT_RELOCS)/$@.relocs; \
+	$(CMD_RELOCS) --abs-relocs $@
+
+quiet_cmd_strip_relocs = RSTRIP  $@
+      cmd_strip_relocs = \
+	$(OBJCOPY) --remove-section='.rel.*' --remove-section='.rel__*' \
+		   --remove-section='.rela.*' --remove-section='.rela__*' $@
+
+# `@true` prevents complaint when there is nothing to be done
+
+vmlinux: FORCE
+	@true
+ifeq ($(CONFIG_X86_NEED_RELOCS),y)
+	$(call cmd,relocs)
+	$(call cmd,strip_relocs)
+endif
+
+%.ko: FORCE
+	@true
+
+clean:
+	@rm -f $(OUT_RELOCS)/vmlinux.relocs
+
+PHONY += FORCE clean
+
+FORCE:
+
+.PHONY: $(PHONY)

arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile

@@ -121,11 +121,9 @@ $(obj)/vmlinux.bin: vmlinux FORCE
 
 targets += $(patsubst $(obj)/%,%,$(vmlinux-objs-y)) vmlinux.bin.all vmlinux.relocs
 
-CMD_RELOCS = arch/x86/tools/relocs
-quiet_cmd_relocs = RELOCS  $@
-      cmd_relocs = $(CMD_RELOCS) $< > $@;$(CMD_RELOCS) --abs-relocs $<
-$(obj)/vmlinux.relocs: vmlinux FORCE
-	$(call if_changed,relocs)
+# vmlinux.relocs is created by the vmlinux postlink step.
+$(obj)/vmlinux.relocs: vmlinux
+	@true
 
 vmlinux.bin.all-y := $(obj)/vmlinux.bin
 vmlinux.bin.all-$(CONFIG_X86_NEED_RELOCS) += $(obj)/vmlinux.relocs