{"id":2841,"date":"2020-10-11T18:02:54","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T01:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2841"},"modified":"2020-10-11T18:02:54","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T01:02:54","slug":"kernel-5-9-final-nvidia-still-tainted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2841","title":{"rendered":"Kernel &#8211; 5.9 Final &#8211; NVIDIA Still &#8216;Tainted&#8217;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kernel 5.9 has finally been released, and brief details are here:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/2010.1\/02900.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/2010.1\/02900.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The latest NVIDIA drivers still fail to install completely, with nvidia-uvm &#8216;tainted&#8217;:<\/p>\n<p><code><strong><span style=\"font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;\">[ 710.097439] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 455.28 Wed Sep 30 01:05:16 UTC 2020<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;\">[ 710.099400] nvidia_uvm: module uses symbols from proprietary module nvidia, inheriting taint.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;\">[ 710.099488] nvidia_uvm: Unknown symbol radix_tree_preloads (err -2)<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;\">[ 710.099501] nvidia_uvm: Unknown symbol set_cpus_allowed_ptr (err -2)<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;\">[ 710.099514] nvidia_uvm: Unknown symbol mmu_notifier_unregister (err -2)<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;\">[ 710.099549] nvidia_uvm: Unknown symbol __mmu_notifier_register (err -2)<\/span><\/strong><\/code><code><\/code><\/p>\n<p>The workaround is to use the &#8216;<strong><span style=\"font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;\">&#8211;no-unified-memory<\/span><\/strong>&#8216; option when running the installer, but this means CUDA is not available.\u00a0\u00a0 Maybe it was expected that the kernel changes would be reverted, but this has obviously not happened, so NVIDIA will have to come up with a solution.<\/p>\n<p>VMware 16 (patched) compiles cleanly, and works OK.<\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0 October 11th 2020.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kernel 5.9 has finally been released, and brief details are here:\u00a0 http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/2010.1\/02900.html The latest NVIDIA drivers still fail to install completely, with nvidia-uvm &#8216;tainted&#8217;: [ 710.097439] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 455.28 Wed Sep 30 01:05:16 UTC 2020 [ 710.099400] nvidia_uvm: module uses symbols from proprietary module nvidia, inheriting taint. 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