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Tag Archives: kernel 4.11-rc1

Kernel – 4.11-rc1 and BTRFS – a Warning..?

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on March 14, 2017 by RGMarch 14, 2017

I encountered a catastrophic problem with btrfs formatted system disk partition corruption, shortly after updating a test system to Kernel 4.11-rc1. To put this in context, this may be an isolated incident, and I have not seen problems – so far – mentioned elsewhere..    But.. there a quite a lot of BTRFS changes on 4.11, and – … Continue reading →

Posted in boot, BTRFS, Crash and Burn.., Hacks, kernel, Linux, Opinion, Performance | Tagged bad block, btrfs errors, kernel 4.11-rc1, open_ctree failed, recovery failure | 1 Reply

VMware – Patch for Kernel 4.11 Support..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on March 7, 2017 by RGMarch 7, 2017

Thanks to Virgo, there are now patches for vmnet and vmmon with Kernel 4.11 (see his comments under the earlier article).    These are incremental patches, for application to VMware 12.5.2 code already patched for Kernel 4.9/4.10 support.. Links are here:   http://pastebin.com/McqmUf0u     and    http://pastebin.com/yjbDHiSX I have modified these (adding appropriate #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE…… #endif statements) to be backward-compatible with … Continue reading →

Posted in compilation, Crash and Burn.., fix, Hacks, kernel, Linux, patches, Performance, VMware | Tagged incremental patches, kernel 4.11-rc1, vmmon, vmnet, vmware 12.5.2 | 7 Replies

Kernel – 4.11-rc1 Released – Breaks (Patched) VMware and NVIDIA..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on March 6, 2017 by RGMarch 6, 2017

Kernel 4.11-rc1 has been released, and brief details are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1703.0/03031.html Updated the test system, and 4.10-patched versions of VMware 12.5.2 and NVIDIA 378.13 fail to compile.. VMware (12.5.2 – patched for 4.9/4.10): …………. /tmp/modconfig-rRcJiJ/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c: In function ‘HostIFFastClockThread’: /tmp/modconfig-rRcJiJ/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c:3267:4: error: implicit declaration of function ‘allow_signal’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] allow_signal(SIGKILL); ^~~~~~~~~~~~ /tmp/modconfig-rRcJiJ/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c: In function ‘HostIF_SetFastClockRate’: /tmp/modconfig-rRcJiJ/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c:3421:10: error: implicit declaration of … Continue reading →

Posted in compilation, Crash and Burn.., kernel, Linux, NVIDIA, Opinion, VMware | Tagged compile fails, kernel 4.11-rc1, nvidia 378.13 patched, vmware 12.5.2 patched | 7 Replies
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