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[144.49.247.24]) by smtp-relay.gmail.com with ESMTPS id 006d021491bc7-68bc7a137cesm63097eaf.6.2026.04.09.15.14.35 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:14:36 -0700 (PDT) X-Relaying-Domain: broadcom.com X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected Received: by mail-qk1-f199.google.com with SMTP id af79cd13be357-8cfcf23c0e1so268357785a.2 for ; Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:14:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=broadcom.com; s=google; t=1775772875; x=1776377675; darn=vger.kernel.org; h=content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:message-id:date:subject:cc :to:from:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=Uq61NuSioqeK9Ij19oY22/JbQCoqVgQAnKmc0h81Ayg=; b=FkFIgbw8FSaaKpSTB0zR7cU1gxQMDvO9vHS/rZ4kXV3Tzt9nBJcwGSgOJ6UsbxAo+4 nnxolhcgTfkny+iSqDYjldgyUOO0LHIq/WacQyXCAYruhcmy0hXcVuwikTwWnZfsFeJn 3c3I+dXJiOBly/++dBbUIaxHVRTMmHoHRrTPc= X-Forwarded-Encrypted: i=1; AJvYcCXoPij03ObiK8nvdk5XcGeoiuL4NWEaZMhSkuUG4sU+QvaWaFH+IPQHqZvjxrS+O9dfHi+7fDGJ4oRC8ag=@vger.kernel.org X-Received: by 2002:a05:620a:4688:b0:8da:358a:c481 with SMTP id af79cd13be357-8ddccb293f3mr107438285a.1.1775772875016; Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:14:35 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:a05:620a:4688:b0:8da:358a:c481 with SMTP id af79cd13be357-8ddccb293f3mr107433985a.1.1775772874510; Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:14:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lbrmn-mmayer.ric.broadcom.net ([192.19.161.248]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id af79cd13be357-8ddb5f89ccdsm56866385a.5.2026.04.09.15.14.33 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:14:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: by lbrmn-mmayer.ric.broadcom.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7DF92D86; Thu, 9 Apr 2026 15:14:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Markus Mayer To: Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Namhyung Kim , Mark Rutland , Alexander Shishkin , Jiri Olsa , Ian Rogers , Adrian Hunter , James Clark Cc: Markus Mayer , Perf Mailing List , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: [PATCH 0/1] perf build: fix "argument list too long" in second location Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2026 15:14:16 -0700 Message-ID: <20260409221418.185343-1-mmayer@broadcom.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.53.0 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-DetectorID-Processed: b00c1d49-9d2e-4205-b15f-d015386d3d5e Hi all, My apologies for not catching this one sooner. Using xargs in the actual build recipe worked, but it turns out echoing $^ in quiet_cmd_rm also offends the shell. Somehow, it didn't show up during my tests before submitting the previous fix[1] for this issue or I would have addressed both together. But then it did start to show up. Like this: GEN linux/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/arm/neoverse-v3/extra-metricgroups.json TEST linux/tools/perf/pmu-events/metric_test.log make[5]: /bin/sh: Argument list too long make[5]: *** [pmu-events/Build:220: prune_orphans] Error 127 This was a bit of a head-scratcher before I realized that this came from quiet_cmd_rm = RM $^ and that no attempt of putting quotes around $^ would help. With change proposed here, it'll look like this instead: GEN linux/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/arm/neoverse-v3/extra-metricgroups.json TEST linux/tools/perf/pmu-events/metric_test.log RM ...634 orphan file(s)... LD linux/tools/perf/util/perf-util-in.o This is probably a good thing, regardless of the shell complaining, since listing 634 files in a so-called "quiet" message is probably not very fitting. I don't know why my build has 634 orphans every single time it runs (straight-up cross-build on x86_64 for ARM64) or if that is a lot. I do get the impression that it is probably rather unusual. Not really doing anything special, though. Also, the build machines are running Ubuntu 24.04. As such, /bin/sh is provided by /bin/dash. This may also factor into why I might be seeing this issue while others may not. Again, sorry for the churn. Hopefully this is it now on the orphan front. Regards, -Markus [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-perf-users/20260303211503.165337-1-mmayer@broadcom.com/ Markus Mayer (1): perf build: fix "argument list too long" in second location tools/perf/pmu-events/Build | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) -- 2.53.0