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/4c02050c4e95e4cb8cc04282695f8...@codeaurora.org/ Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahi...@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nico...@fjasle.eu> Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nat...@kernel.org> --- (no changes since v2) Changes in v2: - New patch scripts/Makefile.build | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.build b/scripts/Makefile.build index 8f1a355df7aa..f546b5f1f33f 100644 --- a/scripts/Makefile.build +++ b/scripts/Makefile.build @@ -270,8 +270,8 @@ $(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[$$0]++' > $@ +cmd_mod = echo $(call real-search, $*.o, .o, -objs -y -m) | \ + $(AWK) -v RS='( |\n)' '!x[$$0]++ { print("$(obj)/"$$0) }' > $@ $(obj)/%.mod: FORCE $(call if_changed,mod) -- 2.32.0
