From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Google-Smtp-Source: AB8JxZq7iIly6fCLQU03YqaFg2LG2yzo/+FF1V0sgmxN2Hs++QWI9zUzV7M90ZnYYKgVSBSw2rAx ARC-Seal: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; t=1525808506; cv=none; d=google.com; s=arc-20160816; b=Z5rRRDslTuB61BKmeSj3ULSAPYmyZzfPEMxY0wHm9D4QNuX7OJi3LY++sBVIDCg86T qDY8jYBiqYXa/MSKHaAO8N7pBOiGKR0AU0HJsvh6J6ACyuGhDNoJ+X4zTgAv5uwZKI+j Uh2cfWF61nuK9mteNgckjFhBHX46aE+by+nFbbSSstvEtMw52tGF8vtZGxXhiQNBwSNy naXqFxji+QFTBQ3z5/CBM4SSfSJBkgYFQm13kVxuQQe3sFWQhItRK5vCDkWV3SIsb+HW 7Nvh+2JBLStvsQL2cvWfbfSpZFzPwBjRE8g+TF4owpKsPLCQ+ONA6ekC1NxOkPNXO46m 643g== ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=arc-20160816; h=user-agent:in-reply-to:content-disposition:mime-version:references :mail-followup-to:message-id:subject:cc:to:from:date:dkim-signature :arc-authentication-results; bh=dPv9PGuPaJb3taWjombOEN0ff/CP5MLhBYSvZRetiEw=; b=hgW0f8TdX+TxN6qzkoUP+eswFYM44CUR4QsbIF2N/2+Av4xszmrSIwTVnquuuSQEfl +C/htwfJd5jDRh/vNNYbxOxRgoT0zR1xvjbJrnaN7uVpzIRdW5PAH92F+dpJaiHWpqAt laXtr+IPPKAts7V84xEgwAfMhdTqS+iZo6Ai2SGF+Hncv+X3id4dcUfbltDnpZvPtZQ7 rzR7sxJ6rFjmQV2ewacug/Xk6HvwOPdIY9Wn+m+oVCCsXw4CuOhn67YYkncC8lQBlfLP BLmC0vIubJZMeLqg26+3ZP7YJJ9qrzOGGht9PdjnMWN/T9PhUnTehlnCh2tgTQUHS6KN p2sg== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; mx.google.com; dkim=pass header.i=@icloud.com header.s=04042017 header.b=qMVXuAbd; spf=pass (google.com: domain of linux_dti@icloud.com designates 17.58.37.19 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=linux_dti@icloud.com; dmarc=pass (p=NONE sp=NONE dis=NONE) header.from=icloud.com Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; dkim=pass header.i=@icloud.com header.s=04042017 header.b=qMVXuAbd; spf=pass (google.com: domain of linux_dti@icloud.com designates 17.58.37.19 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=linux_dti@icloud.com; dmarc=pass (p=NONE sp=NONE dis=NONE) header.from=icloud.com X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:,, definitions=2018-05-08_07:,, signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 clxscore=1011 suspectscore=2 malwarescore=0 phishscore=0 adultscore=0 bulkscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1707230000 definitions=main-1805080185 Date: Tue, 08 May 2018 21:41:36 +0200 From: damian To: Hans de Goede Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, arnd@arndb.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Bug in vboxguest: After commit Merge tag 'char-misc-4.17-rc3' Message-id: <20180508194135.GA27020@zrhn9910b> Mail-followup-to: Hans de Goede , gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, arnd@arndb.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20180502193735.GA2444@zrhn9910b> <20180502200615.GB16341@kroah.com> <20180502204612.GA2089@zrhn9910b> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline In-reply-to: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) X-getmail-retrieved-from-mailbox: INBOX X-GMAIL-THRID: =?utf-8?q?1599382342256929089?= X-GMAIL-MSGID: =?utf-8?q?1599926179892611772?= X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 08. May 13:42, Hans de Goede wrote: > Hi Damian, > > On 02-05-18 22:46, damian wrote: > >Hello Greg, > > > >it is PATCH 3 virt: vbox: Use __get_free_pages insteas of kmalloc for DMA32 memory. > > Thank you for the bug report, I've tried to reproduce this problem > but for me everything works fine. > > Does your virtual-machine have more then 4G of RAM configured for its > use? If yes then what is likely happening is that you also have > the out-of-tree version of the vboxguest modules installed and prior > to the commit in question the out of tree version of the driver is > loading, because before that commit the vboxguest driver in the > mainline kernel fails to load on machines with more then 4G. > > Or alternatively before the commit in question you may not have > any version of the vboxguest driver loaded. > > Using the upstream version of the driver should not make a noticeable > difference, but before the vboxguest driver became a part of the > mainline kernel the virtualbox upstream developers have done a > cleanup / redesign of the userspace API of the vboxguest driver, > so the vboxguest driver will only work with recent virtualbox-guest-additions > and since you are using Ubuntu 16.04 chances are that you are > using that with Ubuntu's quite old bundled virtualbox-guest-additions > which will not work with the new driver and may be causing this > issue. > > Can you try upgrading your virtualbox-guest-additions to 5.2.10 > please? > > Also if the above does not help, a couple of follow up > questions to help this pin down further: > > 1) Are you using vbox's 3d pass through functionality > 2) Which desktop-environment are you using? > > Regards, > > Hans Hi Hans, i will check my configutation and will come back At the moment i dont use use the virtualbox-guest-additions, i use the driver from the staging area. because i had after every new kernel release problms with this driver. regards Damian