From: Rusty Russell Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 07:07:38 +0000 (+1030) Subject: modpost: handle huge numbers of modules. X-Git-Tag: next-20130422~66^2~3 X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ea4054a;p=karo-tx-linux.git modpost: handle huge numbers of modules. strace shows: 72102 execve("/bin/sh", ["/bin/sh", "-c", "echo ' scripts/mod/modpost -m -a -o /cc/wfg/sound-compiletest/Module.symvers -s'; scripts/ mod/modpost -m -a -o /cc/wfg/sound-compiletest/Module.symvers -s vmlinux arch/x86/crypto/ablk_helper.o arch/x86/crypto/aes-i586.o arch /x86/crypto/aesni-intel.o arch/x86/crypto/crc32-pclmul.o ... drivers/ata/sata_promise.o "...], [/* 119 vars */] 71827 wait4(-1, 72102 <... execve resumed> ) = -1 E2BIG (Argument list too long) So we re-run the shell command which produces the list and feed it into modpost -T -. Reported-by: Fengguang Wu Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell --- diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.modpost b/scripts/Makefile.modpost index cf82c832458f..8dcdca27d836 100644 --- a/scripts/Makefile.modpost +++ b/scripts/Makefile.modpost @@ -60,7 +60,8 @@ kernelsymfile := $(objtree)/Module.symvers modulesymfile := $(firstword $(KBUILD_EXTMOD))/Module.symvers # Step 1), find all modules listed in $(MODVERDIR)/ -__modules := $(sort $(shell grep -h '\.ko$$' /dev/null $(wildcard $(MODVERDIR)/*.mod))) +MODLISTCMD := find $(MODVERDIR) -name '*.mod' | xargs -r grep -h '\.ko$$' | sort -u +__modules := $(shell $(MODLISTCMD)) modules := $(patsubst %.o,%.ko, $(wildcard $(__modules:.ko=.o))) # Stop after building .o files if NOFINAL is set. Makes compile tests quicker @@ -78,12 +79,13 @@ modpost = scripts/mod/modpost \ $(if $(CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH),,-S) \ $(if $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)$(KBUILD_MODPOST_WARN),-w) +# We can go over command line length here, so be careful. quiet_cmd_modpost = MODPOST $(words $(filter-out vmlinux FORCE, $^)) modules - cmd_modpost = $(modpost) -s + cmd_modpost = $(MODLISTCMD) | sed 's/\.ko$$/.o/' | $(modpost) -s -T - PHONY += __modpost __modpost: $(modules:.ko=.o) FORCE - $(call cmd,modpost) $(wildcard vmlinux) $(filter-out FORCE,$^) + $(call cmd,modpost) $(wildcard vmlinux) quiet_cmd_kernel-mod = MODPOST $@ cmd_kernel-mod = $(modpost) $@