Re: [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: Fix command line length limit calling dt-mk-schema

[Rob Herring]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 6:37 PM Laurent Pinchart
<laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Rob,
>
> Thank you for the patch.
>
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 04:20:03PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> > As the number of schemas has increased, we're starting to hit the error
> > "execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long". This is due to passing all the
> > schema files on the command line to dt-mk-schema. It currently is only
> > with out of tree builds and is intermittent depending on the file path
> > lengths.
> >
> > Commit 2ba06cd8565b ("kbuild: Always validate DT binding examples") made
> > hitting this proplem more likely since the example validation now always
> > gets the full list of schemas.
> >
> > Fix this by putting the schema file list into a temp file and using xargs.
> >
> > Reported-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Quite a bit slower than v5.6 when passing DT_SCHEMA_FILES, but
> reasonable, and working now :-)

That's expected. It's validating with ~700 vs. 1 schema. The problem
was folks only checking with DT_SCHEMA_FILES set, but a new schema can
affect another example or existing schemas (including core schema) may
fail on the new example.

Rob