Re: make[2]: execvp: /bin/bash: Argument list too long

From: Rusty Russell
Date: Tue Mar 19 2013 - 23:13:52 EST


Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 09:10:25AM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 11:50:58PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> > On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 14:31:40 +0800 kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> > > tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next master
>> > > head: 0e78c0989334e9c1d578ba25621de14e8441d8b4
>> > > commit: 7cac5501aa2bd4777906fa0cdccc1b1ce18b3166 staging: zcache: enable zcache to be built/loaded as a module
>> > > date: 26 hours ago
>> > > config: make ARCH=i386 allmodconfig
>> > >
>> > > All error/warnings:
>> > >
>> > > >> make[2]: execvp: /bin/bash: Argument list too long
>> > > make[2]: *** [__modpost] Error 127
>> > > make[2]: Target `_modpost' not remade because of errors.
>> > >
>> >
>> > Hey, I see that very occasionally, but it goes away all by itself. Are
>> > you sure that
>> > staging-zcache-enable-ramster-to-be-built-loaded-as-a-module.patch
>> > causes it?
>
> Sorry, I confirmed that it's a wrong bisect..
>
>> Is there a way to print out what the argument list is?
>
> Good idea! I managed to catch the error command with
>
> strace -e trace=process -s 4096 -f -o argtoolong make -j1 --debug=j V=1 ARCH=i386 modules

Wow, nice!

modpost really does want all the modules at once, so it can check for
unresolved symbols. So xargs is out, we need to implement stdin-reading
directly.

Bikeshedding on the option name reveals no established standard:
-S/--stdin-file-list in shar, -T/--files-from=i in tar, --files-from=-
in rsync.

Now, if someone can find a better way of getting the module list into a
file/stdin, I'm all ears. I'm not sure the find works in all cases...

Thanks,
Rusty.

diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.modpost b/scripts/Makefile.modpost
index cf82c83..421e14f 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.modpost
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.modpost
@@ -78,12 +78,13 @@ modpost = scripts/mod/modpost \
$(if $(CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH),,-S) \
$(if $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)$(KBUILD_MODPOST_WARN),-w)

-quiet_cmd_modpost = MODPOST $(words $(filter-out vmlinux FORCE, $^)) modules
- cmd_modpost = $(modpost) -s
+# We can go over command line length here, so be careful.
+quiet_cmd_modpost = MODPOST modules
+ cmd_modpost = find * -name '*.ko' | $(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) $@
diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index 282decf..ff6b40b 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
#include <stdio.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <string.h>
+#include <limits.h>
#include "modpost.h"
#include "../../include/generated/autoconf.h"
#include "../../include/linux/license.h"
@@ -1756,6 +1757,28 @@ static void read_symbols(char *modname)
mod->unres = alloc_symbol("module_layout", 0, mod->unres);
}

+static void read_symbols_from_files(const char *filename)
+{
+ FILE *in = stdin;
+ char fname[PATH_MAX];
+
+ if (strcmp(filename, "-") != 0) {
+ in = fopen(filename, "r");
+ if (!in)
+ fatal("Can't open filenames file %s: %m", filename);
+ }
+
+ while (fgets(fname, PATH_MAX, in) != NULL) {
+ /* Strip \n */
+ if (strlen(fname))
+ fname[strlen(fname)-1] = '\0';
+ read_symbols(fname);
+ }
+
+ if (in != stdin)
+ fclose(in);
+}
+
#define SZ 500

/* We first write the generated file into memory using the
@@ -2116,13 +2139,13 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
struct module *mod;
struct buffer buf = { };
char *kernel_read = NULL, *module_read = NULL;
- char *dump_write = NULL;
+ char *dump_write = NULL, *files_source = NULL;
int opt;
int err;
struct ext_sym_list *extsym_iter;
struct ext_sym_list *extsym_start = NULL;

- while ((opt = getopt(argc, argv, "i:I:e:msSo:awM:K:")) != -1) {
+ while ((opt = getopt(argc, argv, "i:I:e:msST:o:awM:K:")) != -1) {
switch (opt) {
case 'i':
kernel_read = optarg;
@@ -2154,6 +2177,9 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
case 'S':
sec_mismatch_verbose = 0;
break;
+ case 'T':
+ files_source = optarg;
+ break;
case 'w':
warn_unresolved = 1;
break;
@@ -2176,6 +2202,9 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
while (optind < argc)
read_symbols(argv[optind++]);

+ if (files_source)
+ read_symbols_from_files(files_source);
+
for (mod = modules; mod; mod = mod->next) {
if (mod->skip)
continue;


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