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In 5.2 kernel a new mechanism was introduced which embeds the kernel
headers in the kernel image and exposes them in procfs for simplified
use by userland tools.
It was introduced in
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/43d8ce9d65a54846d378545770991e65838981e0
and later modified a bit in
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f7b101d33046a837c2aa4526cef28a3c785d7af2
The archive containing the header files had nondeterminism through the
header files metadata - specifically `mtime`, but I also decided to
normalize some other aspects just in case.
In our default setup we currently compile this as a module, so to expose
the headers to test the functionality `kheaders` needs to be loaded.
See https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/10/4/1036 and
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild.git/commit/?h=fixes&id=2cc99c9cdc8fde5e92e34f9655829449cebd3e00
I commented out the documentation part of the patch to make it cleanly apply to
5.2 and 5.3, see remark in the patch itself.
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