Bug 605144

Summary:	app-emulation/vmware-modules fails to build with kernel 4.9.X
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Kenton Groombridge <rustyvega>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo VMWare Bug Squashers [disabled] <vmware+disabled>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Severity:	normal	CC:	newchief
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	InOverlay
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	vmmon patch for kernel 4.9+ vmnet patch for kernel 4.9+ build.log

Description Kenton Groombridge 2017-01-09 02:54:29 UTC

vmware-modules fails to build with linux-4.9

emerge --info
Portage 2.3.3 (python 3.5.2-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/plasma, gcc-5.4.0, glibc-2.23-r3, 4.9.1-gentoo x86_64)
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System uname: Linux-4.9.1-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-4700MQ_CPU_@_2.40GHz-with-gentoo-2.3
KiB Mem:    16349548 total,  14384832 free
KiB Swap:    1637372 total,   1637372 free
Timestamp of repository gentoo: Mon, 09 Jan 2017 01:00:01 +0000
sh bash 4.4_p5-r1
ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.27 p1.0) 2.27
app-shells/bash:          4.4_p5-r1::gentoo
dev-java/java-config:     2.2.0-r3::gentoo
dev-lang/perl:            5.24.1_rc4::gentoo
dev-lang/python:          2.7.12::gentoo, 3.4.5::gentoo, 3.5.2::gentoo
dev-util/cmake:           3.7.1::gentoo
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.29.1::gentoo
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.3::gentoo
sys-apps/openrc:          0.23.1::gentoo
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.10-r3::gentoo
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13::gentoo, 2.69-r2::gentoo
sys-devel/automake:       1.14.1-r1::gentoo, 1.15-r2::gentoo
sys-devel/binutils:       2.27::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc:            5.4.0-r2::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.8-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4.6-r2::gentoo
sys-devel/make:           4.2.1::gentoo
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 4.9::gentoo (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.23-r3::gentoo
Repositories:

gentoo
    location: /usr/portage
    sync-type: rsync
    sync-uri: rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
    priority: -1000

x-portage
    location: /usr/local/portage
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 0

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native -mtune=native"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/sofficerc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native -mtune=native"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo rsync://mirror.leaseweb.com/gentoo/ ftp://cosmos.illinois.edu/pub/gentoo/ http://mirrors.evowise.com/gentoo/ http://cosmos.illinois.edu/pub/gentoo/"
LANG="en_US.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j9"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --exclude=/.git"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
USE="X a52 aac aacplus acpi afpacket aften alsa amd64 bbswitch berkdb binary-drivers bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo caps-ng cdda cdr cli client consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus declarative dri3 dts dvb dvd dvdr efi efiemu emboss encode evdev exif external-fuse fam ff-card ffmpeg file-inspect firefox flac fortran gdbm gif glamor gpm gstreamer gtk hpcups iconv icu ipv6 java javascript jit jpeg kde kipi large-pcap-64bit lcms ldap libav libnotify mad mjpeg mmx mmxext mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg multilib ncurses nfs nfsv4 nls nptl nsplugin ntfsprogs ntp ogg openal opencl opengl openmp openssl pam pango pcre pcsc-lite pdf phonon pkcs11 png policykit ppds prelink projectm proprietary-codecs pulseaudio python qemu qml qt3support qt4 qt5 rar readline samba sdl seccomp semantic-desktop session shm smartcard sna soprano spell sqlite sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svc svg tcpd theora threads tiff touchpad truetype udev udisks unicode upower usb uxa v4l v4l2 vdpau vix vorbis vpx wayland widevine widgets wifi winbind wma wxwidgets x264 x265 xattr xcb xcomposite xine xinerama xml xnest xorg xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc zip zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="aes avx avx2 fma3 mmx mmxext popcnt sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" GRUB_PLATFORMS="efi-64" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard evdev synaptics void" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="en en_US" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-6" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_4 python3_5" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby21 ruby24" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel i965 nvidia" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
USE_PYTHON="3.5"
Unset:  CC, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

Comment 1 Kenton Groombridge 2017-01-09 02:55:53 UTC

Created attachment 459250 [details, diff]
vmmon patch for kernel 4.9+

Comment 2 Kenton Groombridge 2017-01-09 02:56:27 UTC

Created attachment 459252 [details, diff]
vmnet patch for kernel 4.9+

Comment 3 Kenton Groombridge 2017-01-09 02:57:40 UTC

I am fairly certain these patches work correctly as I have been using them for a few weeks with no issues.

Comment 4 Tomáš Mózes 2017-01-09 03:28:29 UTC

Please attach the build log.

Are those patches recommended by upstream?

Comment 5 Harris Landgarten 2017-01-09 04:38:35 UTC

I hand patched for 4.9.0 but for 4.9.1 the 308.1.1 version in the vmware overlay builds and runs fine.

Comment 6 Kenton Groombridge 2017-01-09 23:29:11 UTC

Created attachment 459420 [details]
build.log

Attached build.log.

Not provided upstream. I wish VMWare would be proactive and provide patches for new kernels, but they typically only provide kernel build updates in their releases, so it may take months before they do so.

Comment 7 Francois Chenier 2017-01-15 05:01:17 UTC

> Are those patches recommended by upstream?

Certainly not because this patch set far from complete. There is more of this get_user_pages() stuff in vmci module.

Comment 8 Manfred Knick 2017-07-07 20:46:34 UTC

NOTE: This Bug is about "unstable" :

     ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"

(Harris Landgarten from comment #5)
(who, AFAIK, is also on "~amd64"):
> I hand patched for 4.9.0 but for 4.9.1 the 308.1.1 version in the vmware
> overlay builds and runs fine.
Currently, we are @ 4.9.36 for latest longterm.

REFERENCE:

Bug 616958 :  12.5.7 version bump

Current [Overlay] already includes:

           app-emulation/vmware-modules-308.5.7:0

To me, this bug seems to be FIXED / OBSOLETE.

Comment 9 Manfred Knick 2017-11-30 11:01:17 UTC

VMware Products have been removed from Main Portage Tree during Nov-2017.

Further development has been relegated to [vmware] Overlay.

Situation as of today, 30-Nov-2017:
Workstation : stable in [vmware] = 12.5.8  / released = 14.0.0  : Bug 634770
Player      : stable in [vmware] = 12.5.8  / released = 14.0.0  : Bug 639162
Modules     : stable in [vmware] = 308.5.8 / released = 329.0.0 : Bug 634862
Tools       : stable in [vmware] = 10.1.6  / released = 10.1.15 : Bug 634854