From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Google-Smtp-Source: AB8JxZoh0v41VQuNdxQRwQNhsgNlsrQZG6tfqHdLS2d3PjkREMqtUwMTiiK8Qvv8JPjl9H0IoY1b ARC-Seal: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; t=1525897096; cv=none; d=google.com; s=arc-20160816; b=HIwpROL2VHZSDfGaOHGUnBVUr3+/hBB7Ff9gvpKItYZvabH9tAUCKFf+pvYAdVuy0l a31ygdCkvy9BhgKsoM5K1mPltSs99rPRFtWCYuyybCkM1TKQIidtWIGpTiyIGxAUAS5V naEwCT3uJUjaND8OiOju/ZAfYQp1d4PHz1fJEzuvXNNdGubliUAlj9UELx9O+lAK2Ogp 1JLS2kQ4XOMrIhON00QCzQcwU7FsXP154Yx5lcyMesDurxwmPPYpeh5pTz34UBzYIEXA 9u1BTWvCBdW97W4BdxpNb8Fo0cShMhF8VDR3qE8I5c8WsGavZlzPUG8UDhQO+BJI9gNT tfbw== ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=arc-20160816; h=user-agent:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition:mime-version:references:mail-followup-to :message-id:subject:cc:to:from:date:dkim-signature :arc-authentication-results; bh=LGFeZSYpnilU22n1dPBy27tbGv8z/OfUi1CD4HLGcqs=; b=i0mTbIwqtdDWR0SHxPwcg1oG7axuZAiFntjdrBhjPMJogu11nApIzScp85Vx5Irbaz NJa16Ir+pUcFk82fVufek9QPpvHM9vEfXA6QgsJOBzZgROQPBJlEtUcGUz46NnF3w9iC +Y2kz2UZK8+gdj6zcFUGxVPsRrSZCajwdkT734DIdglTDXIYWeqQauPnZDftHjhoucdI kvBXaFwgvUPO9Q8dQbz1dL/EWgl4V19jCgmSfWchwnUXg5eKSQwWduBTtUU+x4fIcjKF HrSWkXbUi/btd5b6wFVsYv/rQvT4mrT3EYz7PD3Z7TE0UjZ5bjq3aJQx0SYJ3rzv619L EjyQ== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; mx.google.com; dkim=pass header.i=@icloud.com header.s=04042017 header.b=O8vuIoYO; 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=O8vuIoYO; 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=2018-05-09_07:,, signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 clxscore=1015 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-1805090189 Date: Wed, 09 May 2018 22:18:04 +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: <20180509201803.GA8982@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> <20180508194135.GA27020@zrhn9910b> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-disposition: inline Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit 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?1600019073562320427?= X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 09. May 09:36, Hans de Goede wrote: > Hi, > > On 08-05-18 21:41, damian wrote: > >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. > > Ah I see, you may still have the Ubuntu pkg for them installed though, > which may be an old version which actually starts to try and do stuff > now that there is a vboxguest driver in mainline too, but that old > version does not support the new, stable API as merged into the > mainline. > > So if you don't care about the add-ons instead of upgrading yopu > can also remove the Ubuntu pkg for them. > > Regards, > > Hans Hello Hans, the reason why i dont use the virtual-guest-additions from virtualbox is the following with kernel 4.14rc4: there are changes in the kernel and this need time to fix in virtualbox. CC [M] /opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-5.2.97/src/vboxguest-5.2.97/vboxvideo/vbva_base.o /opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-5.2.97/src/vboxguest-5.2.97/vboxvideo/vbox_ttm.c: In Funktion »vbox_ttm_tt_create«: /opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-5.2.97/src/vboxguest-5.2.97/vboxvideo/vbox_ttm.c:219:22: Fehler: Übergabe des Arguments 2 von »ttm_tt_init« von inkompatiblem Zeigertyp [-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types] if (ttm_tt_init(tt, bdev, size, page_flags, dummy_read_page)) { ^~~~ In file included from /home/damian/kernel/linux/include/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_driver.h:45, from /opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-5.2.97/src/vboxguest-5.2.97/vboxvideo/vbox_drv.h:69, from /opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-5.2.97/src/vboxguest-5.2.97/vboxvideo/vbox_ttm.c:31: /home/damian/kernel/linux/include/drm/ttm/ttm_tt.h:161:63: Anmerkung: »struct ttm_buffer_object *« erwartet, aber Argument hat Typ »struct ttm_bo_device *« int ttm_tt_init(struct ttm_tt *ttm, struct ttm_buffer_object *bo, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~ /opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-5.2.97/src/vboxguest-5.2.97/vboxvideo/vbox_ttm.c:219:6: Fehler: zu viele Argumente für Funktion »ttm_tt_init« if (ttm_tt_init(tt, bdev, size, page_flags, dummy_read_page)) { ^~~~~~~~~~~ In file included from /home/damian/kernel/linux/include/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_driver.h:45, from /opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-5.2.97/src/vboxguest-5.2.97/vboxvideo/vbox_drv.h:69, from /opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-5.2.97/src/vboxguest-5.2.97/vboxvideo/vbox_ttm.c:31: /home/damian/kernel/linux/include/drm/ttm/ttm_tt.h:161:5: Anmerkung: hier deklariert int ttm_tt_init(struct ttm_tt *ttm, struct ttm_buffer_object *bo, ^~~~~~~~~~~ Best regards Damian