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8 Replies Last post: Feb 14, 2006 12:31 PM by mlord

Compile error with 2.6.16-rc1 posted: Jan 29, 2006 10:23 AM

cf

130 posts since
Jan 25, 2005

I have a 2.6.16-rc1 stuffed with the vmsplit patch floating in -mm, using VMSPLIT_3G_OPT. The first problem is:

The kernel defined by this directory of header files does not have the same
address space size as your running kernel.

which is wrong. The one I am running has its includes at /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/include, and it is valid. vmware-config.pl does not seem to grasp the new output of gcc; it essentially is

@@VMWARE@@ ((unsigned long)0xB0000000)

rather than

@@VMWARE@@ (0xB0000000)

or whatever it is without the vmsplit patch. I modified vmware-config.pl to continue anyway, and there is another problem, for which the reason seems to be that VMW_HAVE_EPOLL is not defined in the Makefile.

make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.16-rc1'
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.h:20,
from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:49:
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/compat_wait.h:60: error: conflicting types for poll_initwait
include/linux/poll.h:45: error: previous declaration of poll_initwait was here
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:145: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:149: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.16-rc1'
make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only'

Re: Compile error with 2.6.16-rc1

1. Jan 29, 2006 10:25 AM

in response to: cf

cf

130 posts since
Jan 25, 2005

+ I am using VMwareWorkstation-5.5.1-19175.

Re: Compile error with 2.6.16-rc1

2. Feb 1, 2006 5:08 PM

in response to: cf

petr

7,223 posts since
Jul 10, 2003

You must unpack vmmon & vmnet tarballs (they are in /usr/local/lib/vmware/modules/source), locate Makefile.kernel in them, add -DKBUILD_BASENAME=\"$(DRIVER)\" into them next to -Iinclude2, then repack vmmon & vmnet with this update and rerun vmware-config.pl. It should work after that.

Re: Compile error with 2.6.16-rc1

3. Feb 13, 2006 2:44 PM

in response to: petr

FKereki

21 posts since
Feb 13, 2006

I tried doing that, and it didn't work.

I then tried even RENAMING vmmon and vmnet (so they couldn't be found) and I still got the same error.

By the way, at my machine the path was /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source -- without the /local part.

Any ideas?

Re: Compile error with 2.6.16-rc1

4. Feb 13, 2006 2:57 PM

in response to: FKereki

petr

7,223 posts since
Jul 10, 2003

Either you did not do all steps needed for your system, or you made them incorrectly. Did you recreate vmmon.tar & vmnet.tar with updated Makefile.kernel ? Can you post contents of your fixed Makefile.kernel ?

Re: Compile error with 2.6.16-rc1

5. Feb 14, 2006 5:45 AM

in response to: petr

FKereki

21 posts since
Feb 13, 2006

I'm posting my new Makefile.kernel files below. I edited both files, then tar'ed the directories (vmmon-only and vmnet-only). I still got the same error message. What can I be doing wrong? Would going back to a 2.6.13 kernel fix this?

Thanks!

My new vmnet Makefile.kernel:

#!/usr/bin/make -f
#############################################################
# Copyright 2005 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. -- VMware Confidential
#############################################################
####
#### VMware vmnet Makefile to be distributed externally
####

vm_check_build = $(shell if $(CC) $(CPPFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) $(CFLAGS_KERNEL) $(EXTRA_CFLAGS) -Iinclude2/asm/mach-default -DKBUILD_BASENAME=\"$(DRIVER)\" -Werror -S -o /dev/null -xc $(1) > /dev/null 2>&1; then echo "$(2)"; else echo "$(3)"; fi)

CC_WARNINGS := -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
CC_OPTS := $(GLOBAL_DEFS) $(CC_WARNINGS)

CC_OPTS += -DVME_DEFAULT=$(VMWARE_VER)
CC_OPTS += -DVMW_USING_KBUILD

INCLUDE := -I$(SRCROOT)

EXTRA_CFLAGS := $(CC_OPTS) $(INCLUDE)
EXTRA_CFLAGS += $(call vm_check_build, $(SRCROOT)/epoll.c, -DVMW_HAVE_EPOLL, )
EXTRA_CFLAGS += $(call vm_check_build, $(SRCROOT)/socket.c, -DVMW_HAVE_SK_WMEM_ALLOC, )
EXTRA_CFLAGS += $(call vm_check_build, $(SRCROOT)/sk_alloc.c,-DVMW_HAVE_SK_ALLOC_WITH_PROTO, )
EXTRA_CFLAGS += $(call vm_check_build, $(SRCROOT)/setnice.c, -DVMW_HAVE_SET_USER_NICE, )

obj-m += $(DRIVER).o

ifneq (,$(filter x86_64%, $(shell $(CC) -dumpmachine)))
MACHINE := x86_64
else
MACHINE := x386
endif

SMAC := smac_linux.$(MACHINE).o

$(DRIVER)-y := driver.o hub.o userif.o netif.o bridge.o procfs.o smac_compat.o $(SMAC)

####
#### Make Targets are beneath here.
####

clean:
rm -rf $(DRIVER).o $(DRIVER).mod.o $(DRIVER).mod.c $(DRIVER).ko .tmp_versions $($(DRIVER)-y) .*.cmd .*.o.flags

My new VMMON Makefile.kernel:

#!/usr/bin/make -f
#############################################################
# Copyright 1998 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. -- VMware Confidential
#############################################################
####
#### VMware vmmon Makefile to be distributed externally
####

vm_check_build = $(shell if $(CC) $(CPPFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) $(CFLAGS_KERNEL) $(EXTRA_CFLAGS) -Iinclude2/asm/mach-default -DKBUILD_BASENAME=\"$(DRIVER)\" -Werror -S -o /dev/null -xc $(1) > /dev/null 2>&1; then echo "$(2)"; else echo "$(3)"; fi)

CC_WARNINGS := -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
CXX_KFLAGS := $(call vm_check_gxx,-fno-exceptions,)
CC_OPTS := $(GLOBAL_DEFS) $(CC_WARNINGS)

CC_OPTS += -DVME_DEFAULT=$(VMWARE_VER)

CC_OPTS += -DVMW_USING_KBUILD -DVMMON -DVMCORE

INCLUDE := -I$(SRCROOT)/include -I$(SRCROOT)/common -I$(SRCROOT)/linux -I$(SRCROOT)/vmcore

EXTRA_CFLAGS := $(CC_OPTS) $(INCLUDE)

EXTRA_CFLAGS += $(call vm_check_build, $(SRCROOT)/autoconf/nopage1.c, -DVMW_NOPAGE_261, )
EXTRA_CFLAGS += $(call vm_check_build, $(SRCROOT)/autoconf/skas1.c, -DVMW_SKAS_MMAP, )
EXTRA_CFLAGS += $(call vm_check_build, $(SRCROOT)/autoconf/ioapic.c, -DVMWARE__FIX_IO_APIC_BASE=FIX_IO_APIC_BASE_0, -DVMWARE__FIX_IO_APIC_BASE=FIX_IO_APIC_BASE )
EXTRA_CFLAGS += $(call vm_check_build, $(SRCROOT)/autoconf/epoll.c, -DVMW_HAVE_EPOLL, )
EXTRA_CFLAGS += $(shell if [ -f $(HEADER_DIR)/linux/compile.h ]; then echo "-DVMW_HAVE_COMPILE_H"; fi)
EXTRA_CFLAGS += $(call vm_check_build, $(SRCROOT)/autoconf/setnice.c, -DVMW_HAVE_SET_USER_NICE, )

# 2.6.x build system
CFLAGS_task.o := -x c++ $(CXX_KFLAGS)
# 2.4.x build system
CFLAGS_common/task.o := $(CFLAGS_task.o)

obj-m += $(DRIVER).o

$(DRIVER)-y := $(subst $(SRCROOT)/, , $(patsubst %.c, %.o, $(wildcard $(SRCROOT)/linux/*.c $(SRCROOT)/common/*.c $(SRCROOT)/vmcore/*.c)))

clean:
rm -rf $(wildcard $(DRIVER).mod.c $(DRIVER).ko .tmp_versions $(foreach dir,linux/ common/ vmcore/ ./,$(addprefix $(dir),.*.cmd .*.o.flags *.o .*.o.d)))

Re: Compile error with 2.6.16-rc1

6. Feb 14, 2006 9:19 AM

in response to: petr

mlord

3 posts since
Apr 13, 2005

You must unpack vmmon & vmnet tarballs (they are in
/usr/local/lib/vmware/modules/source), locate
Makefile.kernel in them, add
-DKBUILD_BASENAME=\"$(DRIVER)\" into them next to
-Iinclude2, then repack vmmon & vmnet with this
update and rerun vmware-config.pl. It should work
after that.

Yup, that worked fine here for me. Linux kernel 2.6.16-rc3-git1.

Thanks!

Re: Compile error with 2.6.16-rc1

7. Feb 14, 2006 10:36 AM

in response to: FKereki

petr

7,223 posts since
Jul 10, 2003

I'm posting my new Makefile.kernel files below. I
edited both files, then tar'ed the directories
(vmmon-only and vmnet-only). I still got the same
error message. What can I be doing wrong? Would going
back to a 2.6.13 kernel fix this?

Strange. Files looks correct. Are you modifying vmmon.tar/vmnet.tar in /usr/lib/vmware/..., or in the installation directory? You should be modifying ones in /usr/lib/vmware/... and then you should run vmware-config.pl (not vmware-install.pl). Or, if you modify *.tar in the installation directory, you must run vmware-install.pl after that.

Yes, going back to 2.6.13 fixes problem.

Re: Compile error with 2.6.16-rc1

8. Feb 14, 2006 12:31 PM

in response to: cf

mlord

3 posts since
Apr 13, 2005

I have a 2.6.16-rc1 stuffed with the vmsplit patch
floating in -mm, using VMSPLIT_3G_OPT. The first
problem is:

The kernel defined by this directory of header files

does not have the same

address space size as your running kernel.

..
The simplest fix is to remove the "return '';" line from vmware-config.pl, from just after where it prints the "address space" warning message.

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