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From: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
To: jjohnson@codeaurora.org
Cc: eberman@quicinc.com, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, masahiroy@kernel.org,
	michal.lkml@markovi.net, mkalikot@codeaurora.org,
	psodagud@quicinc.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] kbuild: handle excessively long argument lists
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2021 13:07:33 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210114210733.3490303-1-ndesaulniers@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1610500731-30960-2-git-send-email-jjohnson@codeaurora.org>

> From: Mahesh Kumar Kalikot Veetil <mkalikot@codeaurora.org>
> 
> Modules with a large number of compilation units may be
> exceeding AR and LD command argument list. Handle this gracefully by
> writing the long argument list in a file. The command line options
> read from file are inserted in place of the original @file option.
> 
> The usage is well documented at
> https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/File-Function.html
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mahesh Kumar Kalikot Veetil <mkalikot@codeaurora.org>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Johnson <jjohnson@codeaurora.org>
> ---
>  scripts/Makefile.build | 6 +++++-
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.build b/scripts/Makefile.build
> index 252b7d2..d5ef345 100644
> --- a/scripts/Makefile.build
> +++ b/scripts/Makefile.build
> @@ -425,7 +425,11 @@ $(obj)/lib.a: $(lib-y) FORCE
>  # module is turned into a multi object module, $^ will contain header file
>  # dependencies recorded in the .*.cmd file.
>  quiet_cmd_link_multi-m = LD [M]  $@
> -      cmd_link_multi-m = $(LD) $(ld_flags) -r -o $@ $(filter %.o,$^)
> +      cmd_link_multi-m =					\
> +	$(file >$@.in,$(filter %.o,$^))				\
> +	$(LD) $(ld_flags) -r -o $@ @$@.in;			\
> +	rm -f $@.in
> +endif

Was this build tested?

$ make LLVM=1 LLVM_IAS=1 -j72 defconfig
scripts/Makefile.build:432: *** extraneous 'endif'.  Stop.
make: *** [Makefile:535: scripts_basic] Error 2

(Please cc me on v2)

>  
>  $(multi-used-m): FORCE
>  	$(call if_changed,link_multi-m)
> -- 
> The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum,
> a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project



  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-14 21:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-13  1:18 [PATCH 1/2] kbuild: simplify cmd_mod Jeff Johnson
2021-01-13  1:18 ` [PATCH 2/2] kbuild: handle excessively long argument lists Jeff Johnson
2021-01-14 21:07   ` Nick Desaulniers [this message]
2021-01-14 21:32     ` jjohnson
2021-01-14 21:49   ` [PATCH v2 " Jeff Johnson
2021-01-15  1:00     ` Nick Desaulniers
2021-01-15  1:25       ` Masahiro Yamada
2021-01-15  1:12     ` Masahiro Yamada
2021-01-15 20:15       ` jjohnson
2021-01-15 21:53         ` Masahiro Yamada
2021-01-19 20:02           ` mkalikot
2021-01-15  1:07 ` [PATCH 1/2] kbuild: simplify cmd_mod Nick Desaulniers

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