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kbuild: make *.mod rule robust against too long argument error
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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/[email protected]/

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <[email protected]> # LLVM-14 (x86-64)
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masahir0y committed Jun 1, 2022
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Expand Up @@ -275,8 +275,10 @@ $(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)
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