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author | aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org> | 2016-08-30 06:26:12 +0200 |
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committer | aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org> | 2016-08-30 06:55:52 +0200 |
commit | f19c961b4e461da045f2e72e73701059e5117be0 (patch) | |
tree | 1d1b4accbba99222ae9d47a03da0d920ee5477b7 /pkgs/games/steam/chrootenv.nix | |
parent | e7b2f05d209b8d07263a6b3891f1eae1cc12944a (diff) | |
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linux-testing: Fix arg list too long in modinst
With the default kernel and thus with the build I have tested in 74ec94bfa2e57e2c0beeee0e469de58391d04a7b, we get an error during modules_install: make[2]: execvp: /nix/store/.../bin/bash: Argument list too long I haven't noticed this build until I actually tried booting using this kernel because make didn't fail here. The reason this happens within Nix and probably didn't yet surface in other distros is that programs only have a limited amount of memory available for storing the environment and the arguments. Environment variables however are quite common on Nix and thus we stumble on problems like this way earlier - in this case Linux 4.8 - but I have noticed this in 4.7-next as well already. The fix is far from perfect and suffers performance overhead because we now run grep for every *.mod file instead of passing all *.mod files into one single invocation of grep. But comparing the performance overhead (around 1s on my machine) with the overall build time of the kernel I think the overhead really is neglicible. Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
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