Re: Again: error with kernel 6.8.1-1 when compiling nVidia

23 Mar 2024


      Am 23/03/2024 um 20:41 schrieb Andrei Borzenkov:
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On 23.03.2024 22:28, Peter Maffter via openSUSE Users wrote:
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I used the nVidia compile command from
From: Bjoern Voigt via openSUSE Users <users@lists.opensuse.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2023 11:37:52 +0100
Subject: Re: nVidia: build error with kernel 6.6.1
I have no idea what it means. Show the full command and the complete output.
BV> I think, it's not a good idea to use the driver from
BV> https://download.nvidia.com/ if you usually use the RPM Nvidia driver.
BV> At least in the past some additional steps were necessary to switch back
BV> to the RPM Nvidia driver later.
BV>
BV> If I have a problem with the Nvidia sources, I use the following steps
BV> (I use version 545.29.02 here, but 390.157 should work similar):
BV>
BV>  1. cd /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-545.29.02-default
BV>  2. Apply the patches
BV>  3. Compile the driver (here for Kernel version 6.6.1-1-default):
BV>     vers=6.6.1-1-default; make clean modules KERNEL_UNAME=$vers; make
BV>     modules_install KERNEL_UNAME=$vers; make clean KERNEL_UNAME=$vers;
BV>     depmod $vers
BV>
BV> If the kernel is updated, the recompilation is done automatically. If
BV> the Nvidia RPM is updated, you have to check, if the new Nvidia RPM
BV> driver needs patches too.

/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default # vers=6.8.1-1-default;make clean 
modules KERNEL_UNAME=$vers;make modules_install KERNEL_UNAME=$vers; make clean 
KERNEL_UNAME=$vers;depmod $vers
rm -f -r conftest
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-6.8.1-1'
make[2]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-6.8.1-1-obj/x86_64/default'
make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-6.8.1-1-obj/x86_64/default'
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-6.8.1-1'
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-6.8.1-1'
make[2]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-6.8.1-1-obj/x86_64/default'
warning: the compiler differs from the one used to build the kernel
   The kernel was built by: gcc (SUSE Linux) 13.2.1 20240206 [revision 
67ac78caf31f7cb3202177e6428a46d829b70f23]
   You are using:           cc (SUSE Linux) 13.2.1 20240206 [revision 
67ac78caf31f7cb3202177e6428a46d829b70f23]
  CONFTEST: INIT_WORK
  CONFTEST: remap_pfn_range
  CONFTEST: hash__remap_4k_pfn
  CONFTEST: follow_pfn
  CONFTEST: vmap
  CONFTEST: set_pages_uc
  CONFTEST: list_is_first
  CONFTEST: set_memory_uc
  CONFTEST: set_memory_array_uc
  CONFTEST: change_page_attr
  CONFTEST: pci_get_class
  CONFTEST: pci_choose_state
  CONFTEST: vm_insert_page
  CONFTEST: acpi_device_id
  CONFTEST: acquire_console_sem
  CONFTEST: console_lock
  CONFTEST: kmem_cache_create
  CONFTEST: on_each_cpu
  CONFTEST: smp_call_function
  CONFTEST: acpi_evaluate_integer
  CONFTEST: ioremap_cache
  CONFTEST: ioremap_wc
  CONFTEST: acpi_walk_namespace
  CONFTEST: pci_domain_nr

[...the complete output is really a lot of stuff...]

/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia-modeset.o: warning: 
objtool: .rodata+0x4de70: data relocation to !ENDBR: _nv002687kms+0x2e0
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia-modeset.o: warning: 
objtool: .rodata+0x4de78: data relocation to !ENDBR: _nv002687kms+0x32
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia-modeset.o: warning: 
objtool: .rodata+0x4de80: data relocation to !ENDBR: _nv002687kms+0x358
   CC [M]  /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm.o
   CC [M] 
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-drv.o
   CC [M] 
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-utils.o
   CC [M] 
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-crtc.o
   CC [M] 
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-encoder.o
   CC [M] 
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-connector.o
   CC [M] 
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-gem.o
   CC [M]  /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-fb.o
   CC [M] 
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-modeset.o
   CC [M] 
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-prime-fence.o
In file included from /usr/src/linux-6.8.1-1/include/linux/srcu.h:21,
                  from /usr/src/linux-6.8.1-1/include/linux/notifier.h:16,
                  from /usr/src/linux-6.8.1-1/arch/x86/include/asm/uprobes.h:13,
                  from /usr/src/linux-6.8.1-1/include/linux/uprobes.h:49,
                  from /usr/src/linux-6.8.1-1/include/linux/mm_types.h:16,
                  from /usr/src/linux-6.8.1-1/include/linux/mmzone.h:22,
                  from /usr/src/linux-6.8.1-1/include/linux/gfp.h:7,
                  from /usr/src/linux-6.8.1-1/include/linux/xarray.h:15,
                  from /usr/src/linux-6.8.1-1/include/linux/radix-tree.h:21,
                  from /usr/src/linux-6.8.1-1/include/linux/idr.h:15,
                  from /usr/src/linux-6.8.1-1/include/drm/drm_device.h:7,
                  from 
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-priv.h:35,
                  from 
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-prime-fence.c:31:
In function ‘__nv_drm_fence_context_destroy’,
     inlined from ‘__nv_drm_gem_fence_context_free’ at 
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-prime-fence.c:418:5:
/usr/src/linux-6.8.1-1/include/linux/workqueue.h:625:9: warning: call to 
‘__warn_flushing_systemwide_wq’ declared with attribute warning: Please avoid 
flushing system-wide workqueues. [-Wattribute-warning]
   625 |         __warn_flushing_systemwide_wq();                                \
       |         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-prime-fence.c:325:5: 
note: in expansion of macro ‘flush_scheduled_work’
   325 |     flush_scheduled_work();
       |     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
   CC [M] 
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-linux.o
   CC [M] 
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-helper.o
   CC [M]  /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia-drm/nv-pci-table.o
   CC [M] 
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-gem-nvkms-memory.o
   CC [M] 
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-gem-user-memory.o
   LD [M]  /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia-drm.o
ld -r -o /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia/nv-interface.o 
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia/nv-frontend.o 
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia/nv-instance.o 
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia/nv-gpu-numa.o 
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia/nv.o 
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia/nv-acpi.o 
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia/nv-chrdev.o 
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia/nv-cray.o 
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia/nv-dma.o 
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia/nv-gvi.o 
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia/nv-i2c.o 
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia/nv-mempool.o 
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia/nv-mmap.o 
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia/nv-p2p.o 
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia/nv-pat.o 
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia/nv-procfs.o 
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia/nv-usermap.o 
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia/nv-vm.o 
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia/nv-vtophys.o 
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia/os-interface.o 
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia/os-mlock.o 
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia/os-pci.o 
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia/os-registry.o 
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia/os-usermap.o 
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia/nv-modeset-interface.o 
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia/nv-pci-table.o 
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia/nv-kthread-q.o 
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia/nv-kthread-q-selftest.o 
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia/nv-memdbg.o 
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia/nv-ibmnpu.o 
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia/nv-report-err.o 
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia/nv_uvm_interface.o 
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia/nvlink_linux.o
ld -r -o 
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia-modeset/nv-modeset-interface.o 
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia-modeset/nvidia-modeset-linux.o
   MODPOST /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/Module.symvers
   CC [M]  /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia.mod.o
   LD [M]  /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia.ko
   BTF [M] /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia.ko
Skipping BTF generation for 
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia.ko due to unavailability 
of vmlinux
   CC [M]  /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia-uvm.mod.o
   LD [M]  /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia-uvm.ko
   BTF [M] /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia-uvm.ko
Skipping BTF generation for 
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia-uvm.ko due to 
unavailability of vmlinux
   CC [M]  /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia-modeset.mod.o
   LD [M]  /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia-modeset.ko
   BTF [M] /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia-modeset.ko
Skipping BTF generation for 
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia-modeset.ko due to 
unavailability of vmlinux
   CC [M]  /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia-drm.mod.o
   LD [M]  /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia-drm.ko
   BTF [M] /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia-drm.ko
Skipping BTF generation for 
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/nvidia-drm.ko due to 
unavailability of vmlinux
make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-6.8.1-1-obj/x86_64/default'
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-6.8.1-1'
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-6.8.1-1'
make[2]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-6.8.1-1-obj/x86_64/default'
   INSTALL /usr/lib/modules/6.8.1-1-default/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko
   INSTALL /usr/lib/modules/6.8.1-1-default/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia-uvm.ko
   INSTALL /usr/lib/modules/6.8.1-1-default/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia-modeset.ko
   INSTALL /usr/lib/modules/6.8.1-1-default/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia-drm.ko
   DEPMOD  /usr/lib/modules/6.8.1-1-default
Warning: modules_install: missing 'System.map' file. Skipping depmod.
make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-6.8.1-1-obj/x86_64/default'
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-6.8.1-1'
rm -f -r conftest
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-6.8.1-1'
make[2]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-6.8.1-1-obj/x86_64/default'
   CLEAN   /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default
   CLEAN   /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-390.157-default/Module.symvers
make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-6.8.1-1-obj/x86_64/default'
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-6.8.1-1'
...
...
make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-6.8.1-1-obj/x86_64/default'
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-6.8.1-1'
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-6.8.1-1'
make[2]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-6.8.1-1-obj/x86_64/default'
     INSTALL /usr/lib/modules/6.8.1-1-default/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko
     INSTALL /usr/lib/modules/6.8.1-1-default/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia-uvm.ko
     INSTALL /usr/lib/modules/6.8.1-1-default/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia-modeset.ko
     INSTALL /usr/lib/modules/6.8.1-1-default/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia-drm.ko
     DEPMOD  /usr/lib/modules/6.8.1-1-default
Warning: modules_install: missing 'System.map' file. Skipping depmod.
bor@tw:~> ll /usr/lib/modules/6.8.1-1-default/System.map
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7603403 Mar 19 10:32
/usr/lib/modules/6.8.1-1-default/System.map
bor@tw:~>
ll /usr/lib/modules/6.8.1-1-default/System.map
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7603403 Mar 19 08:32 
/usr/lib/modules/6.8.1-1-default/System.map

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