Updated to Kernel 6.5-rc5, and – as expected – vmmon still fails to compile:<\/p>\n
I did find a post relating to this on the kernel dev mailing list, where a request relating to this problem with other code (Android..?) from one of the Linaro devs got a rather smart rebuttal – along the lines of ‘explain why you are doing this’… As I have been testing the 2023 Tech Preview of VMware, I took the liberty of posting the issue in their forum, in the hope of getting some sort of response, as the same error occurs with that pre-release of VMware….<\/p>\n Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 August 6th 2023.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Updated to Kernel 6.5-rc5, and – as expected – vmmon still fails to compile: CC [M] \/tmp\/modconfig-s9HCQR\/vmmon-only\/bootstrap\/vmmblob.o LD [M] \/tmp\/modconfig-s9HCQR\/vmmon-only\/vmmon.o MODPOST \/tmp\/modconfig-s9HCQR\/vmmon-only\/Module.symvers ERROR: modpost: “__pte_offset_map” [\/tmp\/modconfig-s9HCQR\/vmmon-only\/vmmon.ko] undefined! make[3]: *** [scripts\/Makefile.modpost:144: \/tmp\/modconfig-s9HCQR\/vmmon-only\/Module.symvers] Error 1 make[2]: *** [\/usr\/src\/linux-6.5-rc5\/Makefile:1984: modpost] Error 2 make[1]: *** [Makefile:234: __sub-make] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory ‘\/usr\/src\/linux-6.5-rc5’ make: *** [Makefile:117: vmmon.ko] Error 2 I did …<\/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":[14,15,19,1533,25],"tags":[440,2597,2599,2598,1206,402,2592],"class_list":["post-3157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-opinion","category-patches","category-vmware","tag-compile-fail","tag-kernel-6-5","tag-no-solution-found","tag-undefined","tag-vmmon","tag-vmware-2","tag-__pte_offset_map"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3157","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=3157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3159,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3157\/revisions\/3159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}CC [M] \/tmp\/modconfig-s9HCQR\/vmmon-only\/bootstrap\/vmmblob.o<\/strong><\/span>
\nLD [M] \/tmp\/modconfig-s9HCQR\/vmmon-only\/vmmon.o<\/strong><\/span>
\nMODPOST \/tmp\/modconfig-s9HCQR\/vmmon-only\/Module.symvers<\/strong><\/span>
\nERROR: modpost: \"__pte_offset_map\" [\/tmp\/modconfig-s9HCQR\/vmmon-only\/vmmon.ko] undefined!<\/strong><\/span>
\nmake[3]: *** [scripts\/Makefile.modpost:144: \/tmp\/modconfig-s9HCQR\/vmmon-only\/Module.symvers] Error 1<\/strong><\/span>
\nmake[2]: *** [\/usr\/src\/linux-6.5-rc5\/Makefile:1984: modpost] Error 2<\/strong><\/span>
\nmake[1]: *** [Makefile:234: __sub-make] Error 2<\/strong><\/span>
\nmake[1]: Leaving directory '\/usr\/src\/linux-6.5-rc5'<\/strong><\/span>
\nmake: *** [Makefile:117: vmmon.ko] Error 2<\/strong><\/span><\/code><\/p>\n
\nAs a result, the dev posted a series of patches to fix the problem, but this simply consisted of reverting<\/em> all the appropriate kernel 6.5-rc changes – which is not a solution!<\/p>\n