{"id":3220,"date":"2024-03-17T16:41:55","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T23:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=3220"},"modified":"2024-03-17T16:41:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T23:41:55","slug":"kernel-6-9-rc-pre-testing-nvidia-ok-vmware-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=3220","title":{"rendered":"Kernel – 6.9-rc Pre-testing – NVIDIA OK, VMware Broken.."},"content":{"rendered":"

Testing an early pre-release version of Kernel 6.9-rc (March 16th) and – so far – the latest NVIDIA 550.54.14 compiles OK, but (patched) VMware vmnet<\/span> 17.5.1 does not:
\n……..
\nCC [M] \/tmp\/modconfig-1kunqP\/vmnet-only\/smac.o<\/span><\/strong>
\nCC [M] \/tmp\/modconfig-1kunqP\/vmnet-only\/vnetEvent.o<\/span><\/strong>
\nCC [M] \/tmp\/modconfig-1kunqP\/vmnet-only\/vnetUserListener.o<\/span><\/strong>
\nIn file included from .\/include\/linux\/spinlock.h:305,<\/span><\/strong>
\nfrom .\/include\/linux\/sched.h:2138,<\/span><\/strong>
\nfrom \/tmp\/modconfig-1kunqP\/vmnet-only\/bridge.c:25:<\/span><\/strong>
\n\/tmp\/modconfig-1kunqP\/vmnet-only\/bridge.c: In function \u2018VNetBridgeReceiveFromVNet\u2019:<\/span><\/strong>
\n\/tmp\/modconfig-1kunqP\/vmnet-only\/vmnetInt.h:44:39: error: \u2018dev_base_lock\u2019 undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean \u2018device_lock\u2019?<\/span><\/strong>
\n44 | #define dev_lock_list() read_lock(&dev_base_lock)<\/span><\/strong>
\n| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/span><\/strong>
\n.\/include\/linux\/rwlock.h:56:48: note: in definition of macro \u2018read_lock\u2019<\/span><\/strong>
\n56 | #define read_lock(lock) _raw_read_lock(lock)<\/span><\/strong>
\n| ^~~~<\/span><\/strong>
\n\/tmp\/modconfig-1kunqP\/vmnet-only\/bridge.c:587:4: note: in expansion of macro \u2018dev_lock_list\u2019<\/span><\/strong>
\n587 | dev_lock_list();<\/span><\/strong>
\n| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/span><\/strong>
\n\/tmp\/modconfig-1kunqP\/vmnet-only\/vmnetInt.h:44:39: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in<\/span><\/strong>
\n44 | #define dev_lock_list() read_lock(&dev_base_lock)<\/span><\/strong>
\n| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/span><\/strong>
\n.\/include\/linux\/rwlock.h:56:48: note: in definition of macro \u2018read_lock\u2019<\/span><\/strong>
\n56 | #define read_lock(lock) _raw_read_lock(lock)<\/span><\/strong>
\n| ^~~~<\/span><\/strong>
\n\/tmp\/modconfig-1kunqP\/vmnet-only\/bridge.c:587:4: note: in expansion of macro \u2018dev_lock_list\u2019<\/span><\/strong>
\n587 | dev_lock_list();<\/span><\/strong>
\n| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/span><\/strong>
\n\/tmp\/modconfig-1kunqP\/vmnet-only\/bridge.c: In function \u2018VNetBridgeUp\u2019:<\/span><\/strong>
\n\/tmp\/modconfig-1kunqP\/vmnet-only\/vmnetInt.h:44:39: error: \u2018dev_base_lock\u2019 undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean \u2018device_lock\u2019?<\/span><\/strong>
\n44 | #define dev_lock_list() read_lock(&dev_base_lock)<\/span><\/strong>
\n| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/span><\/strong>
\n.\/include\/linux\/rwlock.h:56:48: note: in definition of macro \u2018read_lock\u2019<\/span><\/strong>
\n56 | #define read_lock(lock) _raw_read_lock(lock)<\/span><\/strong>
\n| ^~~~<\/span><\/strong>
\n\/tmp\/modconfig-1kunqP\/vmnet-only\/bridge.c:902:4: note: in expansion of macro \u2018dev_lock_list\u2019<\/span><\/strong>
\n902 | dev_lock_list();<\/span><\/strong>
\n| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/span><\/strong>
\nmake[3]: *** [scripts\/Makefile.build:243: \/tmp\/modconfig-1kunqP\/vmnet-only\/bridge.o] Error 1<\/span><\/strong>
\nmake[2]: *** [\/usr\/src\/linux-6.9-rc000\/Makefile:1912: \/tmp\/modconfig-1kunqP\/vmnet-only] Error 2<\/span><\/strong>
\nmake[1]: *** [Makefile:240: __sub-make] Error 2<\/span><\/strong>
\nmake[1]: Leaving directory '\/usr\/src\/linux-6.9-rc000'<\/span><\/strong>
\nmake: *** [Makefile:117: vmnet.ko] Error 2<\/span><\/strong>
\nmake: Leaving directory '\/tmp\/modconfig-1kunqP\/vmnet-only'<\/span><\/strong>
\nUnable to install all modules. See log for details.<\/span><\/strong><\/code><\/p>\n

Of course, there are many more changes before -rc1 in a weeks time, so things may change..<\/p>\n

Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0 March 17th 2024.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Testing an early pre-release version of Kernel 6.9-rc (March 16th) and – so far – the latest NVIDIA 550.54.14 compiles OK, but (patched) VMware vmnet 17.5.1 does not: …….. CC [M] \/tmp\/modconfig-1kunqP\/vmnet-only\/smac.o CC [M] \/tmp\/modconfig-1kunqP\/vmnet-only\/vnetEvent.o CC [M] \/tmp\/modconfig-1kunqP\/vmnet-only\/vnetUserListener.o In file included from .\/include\/linux\/spinlock.h:305, from .\/include\/linux\/sched.h:2138, from \/tmp\/modconfig-1kunqP\/vmnet-only\/bridge.c:25: \/tmp\/modconfig-1kunqP\/vmnet-only\/bridge.c: In function \u2018VNetBridgeReceiveFromVNet\u2019: \/tmp\/modconfig-1kunqP\/vmnet-only\/vmnetInt.h:44:39: error: \u2018dev_base_lock\u2019 undeclared (first use …<\/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":[706,5,14,15,18,19,25],"tags":[2644,2642,1106,2093,362,2598,2643],"class_list":["post-3220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alpha-release","category-compilation","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-nvidia","category-opinion","category-vmware","tag-dev_base_lock","tag-kernel-6-9","tag-nvidia-ok","tag-pre-release","tag-testing","tag-undefined","tag-vmware-vmnet-fails"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220","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=3220"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3222,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220\/revisions\/3222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}