{"id":2707,"date":"2020-03-13T01:36:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T08:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2707"},"modified":"2020-03-13T01:36:16","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T08:36:16","slug":"vmware-workstation-update-15-5-2-compiles-with-warnings-with-kernel-5-5-and-5-6-rc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2707","title":{"rendered":"VMware – Workstation Update 15.5.2 – Compiles with Warnings, with Kernel 5.5 and 5.6-rc."},"content":{"rendered":"

VMware have released Workstation 15.5.2<\/strong>, and details are here: https:\/\/docs.vmware.com\/en\/VMware-Workstation-Pro\/15.5\/rn\/VMware-Workstation-1552-Pro-Release-Notes.html<\/a><\/p>\n

This compiles with Kernels 5.5.9 and 5.6-rc6, but with many ‘warnings’…<\/p>\n

Kernel 5.5.9 (GCC 9) examples:
\nvmmon<\/strong>:
\n............................<\/span><\/strong>
\n\/tmp\/modconfig-rt8PSu\/vmmon-only\/common\/memtrack.o: warning: objtool: .text.__x86_indirect_thunk_rbx+0x0: unsupported intra-function call<\/span><\/strong>
\n\/tmp\/modconfig-rt8PSu\/vmmon-only\/common\/memtrack.o: warning: objtool: If this is a retpoline, please patch it in with alternatives and annotate it with ANNOTATE_NOSPEC_ALTERNATIVE.<\/span><\/strong>
\n\/tmp\/modconfig-rt8PSu\/vmmon-only\/common\/phystrack.o: warning: objtool: PhysTrack_Free() falls through to next function PhysTrack_Add()<\/span><\/strong>
\n\/tmp\/modconfig-rt8PSu\/vmmon-only\/common\/phystrack.o: warning: objtool: PhysTrack_Add() falls through to next function PhysTrack_Remove()<\/span><\/strong>
\n\/tmp\/modconfig-rt8PSu\/vmmon-only\/common\/phystrack.o: warning: objtool: PhysTrack_Remove() falls through to next function PhysTrack_Test()<\/span><\/strong>
\nIn file included from \/tmp\/modconfig-rt8PSu\/vmmon-only\/.\/common\/vmx86.h:32,<\/span><\/strong>
\nfrom \/tmp\/modconfig-rt8PSu\/vmmon-only\/vmcore\/moduleloop.c:35:<\/span><\/strong>
\n\/tmp\/modconfig-rt8PSu\/vmmon-only\/.\/include\/x86msr.h:134: warning: \"MSR_MISC_FEATURES_ENABLES\" redefined<\/span><\/strong>
\n134 | #define MSR_MISC_FEATURES_ENABLES 0x140<\/span><\/strong>
\n............................<\/span><\/strong>
\n.\/arch\/x86\/include\/asm\/msr-index.h:514: warning: \"MSR_K7_HWCR_SMMLOCK\" redefined<\/span><\/strong>
\n514 | #define MSR_K7_HWCR_SMMLOCK BIT_ULL(MSR_K7_HWCR_SMMLOCK_BIT)<\/span><\/strong>
\n|<\/span><\/strong>
\nIn file included from \/tmp\/modconfig-rt8PSu\/vmmon-only\/common\/vmx86.h:32,<\/span><\/strong>
\nfrom \/tmp\/modconfig-rt8PSu\/vmmon-only\/common\/task.c:51:<\/span><\/strong>
\n\/tmp\/modconfig-rt8PSu\/vmmon-only\/.\/include\/x86msr.h:474: note: this is the location of the previous definition<\/span><\/strong>
\n474 | #define MSR_K7_HWCR_SMMLOCK 0x00000001ULL \/\/ Lock SMM environment<\/span><\/strong>
\n.........................<\/span><\/strong><\/code>
\nvmnet<\/strong>:
\n.........................<\/span><\/strong>
\n\/tmp\/modconfig-rt8PSu\/vmnet-only\/vnetEvent.o: warning: objtool: .text.__x86_indirect_thunk_r12+0x0: unsupported intra-function call<\/span><\/strong>
\n\/tmp\/modconfig-rt8PSu\/vmnet-only\/vnetEvent.o: warning: objtool: If this is a retpoline, please patch it in with alternatives and annotate it with ANNOTATE_NOSPEC_ALTERNATIVE.<\/span><\/strong>
\n\/tmp\/modconfig-rt8PSu\/vmnet-only\/vnetUserListener.o: warning: objtool: .text.__x86_indirect_thunk_rax+0x0: unsupported intra-function call<\/span><\/strong>
\n\/tmp\/modconfig-rt8PSu\/vmnet-only\/vnetUserListener.o: warning: objtool: If this is a retpoline, please patch it in with alternatives and annotate it with ANNOTATE_NOSPEC_ALTERNATIVE.<\/span><\/strong>
\n\/tmp\/modconfig-rt8PSu\/vmnet-only\/procfs.o: warning: objtool: .text.__x86_indirect_thunk_r10+0x0: unsupported intra-function call<\/span><\/strong>
\n\/tmp\/modconfig-rt8PSu\/vmnet-only\/procfs.o: warning: objtool: If this is a retpoline, please patch it in with alternatives and annotate it with ANNOTATE_NOSPEC_ALTERNATIVE.<\/span><\/strong>
\n\/tmp\/modconfig-rt8PSu\/vmnet-only\/hub.o: warning: objtool: .text.__x86_indirect_thunk_rax+0x0: unsupported intra-function call<\/span><\/strong>
\n\/tmp\/modconfig-rt8PSu\/vmnet-only\/hub.o: warning: objtool: If this is a retpoline, please patch it in with alternatives and annotate it with ANNOTATE_NOSPEC_ALTERNATIVE.<\/span><\/strong>
\n.........................<\/span><\/strong><\/code><\/p>\n

Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 March 12th 2020.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VMware have released Workstation 15.5.2, and details are here: https:\/\/docs.vmware.com\/en\/VMware-Workstation-Pro\/15.5\/rn\/VMware-Workstation-1552-Pro-Release-Notes.html This compiles with Kernels 5.5.9 and 5.6-rc6, but with many ‘warnings’… Kernel 5.5.9 (GCC 9) examples: vmmon: ………………………. \/tmp\/modconfig-rt8PSu\/vmmon-only\/common\/memtrack.o: warning: objtool: .text.__x86_indirect_thunk_rbx+0x0: unsupported intra-function call \/tmp\/modconfig-rt8PSu\/vmmon-only\/common\/memtrack.o: warning: objtool: If this is a retpoline, please patch it in with alternatives and annotate it with ANNOTATE_NOSPEC_ALTERNATIVE. \/tmp\/modconfig-rt8PSu\/vmmon-only\/common\/phystrack.o: warning: objtool: …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14,15,19,25],"tags":[2190,2191,2192,1528,402],"class_list":["post-2707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compilation","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-opinion","category-vmware","tag-15-5-2","tag-compiles-with-warnings","tag-kernel-5-5-and-5-6-rc","tag-new-version","tag-vmware-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2708,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707\/revisions\/2708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}