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Subject: [PATCH v7 6/8] kbuild: make *.mod rule robust against too long argument error
Date:   Fri, 27 May 2022 19:01:53 +0900
Message-Id: <20220527100155.1996314-7-masahiroy@kernel.org>
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Like built-in.a, the command length of the *.mod rule scales with
the depth of the directory times the number of objects in the Makefile.

Add $(obj)/ by the shell command (awk) instead of by Make's builtin
function.

In-tree modules still have some room to the limit (ARG_MAX=2097152),
but this is more future-proof for big modules in a deep directory.

For example, you can build i915 as a module (CONFIG_DRM_I915=m) and
compare drivers/gpu/drm/i915/.i915.mod.cmd with/without this commit.

The issue is more critical for external modules because the M= path
can be very long as Jeff Johnson reported before [1].

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kbuild/4c02050c4e95e4cb8cc04282695f8404@codeaurora.org/

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> # LLVM-14 (x86-64)
---

Changes in v7:
  - Add comment to the code

 scripts/Makefile.build | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.build b/scripts/Makefile.build
index 014ebee70fd6..31feb798e16e 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.build
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.build
@@ -274,8 +274,10 @@ $(obj)/%.o: $(src)/%.c $(recordmcount_source) FORCE
 	$(call if_changed_rule,cc_o_c)
 	$(call cmd,force_checksrc)
 
-cmd_mod = echo $(addprefix $(obj)/, $(call real-search, $*.o, .o, -objs -y -m)) | \
-	$(AWK) -v RS='( |\n)' '!x[$$0]++' > $@
+# To make this rule robust against "Argument list too long" error,
+# ensure to add $(obj)/ prefix by a shell command.
+cmd_mod = echo $(call real-search, $*.o, .o, -objs -y -m) | \
+	$(AWK) -v RS='( |\n)' '!x[$$0]++ { print("$(obj)/"$$0) }' > $@
 
 $(obj)/%.mod: FORCE
 	$(call if_changed,mod)
-- 
2.32.0