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Subject[RFC PATCH] ARM Fix /usr/bin/xargs: etags: Argument list too long
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commit 42a579a0f960081cd16fc945036e4780c3ad3202

When running "make ARCH=arm TAGS" in a chroot using qemu-arm-static,
the following message is emitted:

[user@host:/home/work/linux]: make ARCH=arm TAGS
GEN TAGS
/usr/bin/xargs: etags: Argument list too long

This can be fixed by by passing "-L 1024" to xargs in scripts/tags.sh.

The "1024" was a guess. A value of "3862" changes the message to

/usr/bin/xargs: argument list too long

Using "2048" also fixes the problem. However, I don't know how much
headroom that leaves

Does anyone know why the argument lists must be shorter for ARM? All
of the documentation I have available says that 4096 should be the
limit.

Signed-off-by: David Cullen <david.cullen@koe-americas.com>
---
scripts/tags.sh | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/tags.sh b/scripts/tags.sh
index cff8faa..7f4ebb3 100755
--- a/scripts/tags.sh
+++ b/scripts/tags.sh
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ dogtags()

exuberant()
{
- all_sources | xargs $1 -a \
+ all_sources | xargs -L 1024 $1 -a \
-I __initdata,__exitdata,__acquires,__releases \
-I __read_mostly,____cacheline_aligned \
-I ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp \
--
1.7.9.5
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