Speaker
Description
Operating system distributors often face challenges that are somewhat
different from that of upstream kernel developers. For instance, some
kernel updates often need to stay at least binary compatible with
modules that might be "out of tree" for some time.
In that context, being able to automatically detect and analyze
changes to the binary interface exposed by the kernel to its module
does have some noticeable value.
The Libabigail framework is capable of analyzing ELF binaries along
with their accompanying debug info in the DWARF format, detect and
report changes in types, functions, variables and ELF symbols. It has
historically supported that for user space shared libraries and
application so we worked to make it understand the Linux kernel
binaries.
In this presentation, we are going to present the current support of
ABI analysis for Linux Kernel binaries, especially the kind of
information that Libabigail consumes from DWARF and thus what it would
need from an alternative debug info format.
We hope the presentation will lead to discussions on topics revolving
around what it would take to adapt Libabigail to the emerging
alternate debug info formats and if that would make sense at all.
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