Possible Issue With Nvidia And New Patches?

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January 4, 2018 Zube CentOS 2 Comments

Twitter user stintel, in this thread:

https://twitter.com/stintel/status/948499157282623488

mentions a possible problem with the new patches and the nvidia driver:

“As if the @Intel bug isn’t bad enough, #KPTI renders @nvidia driver incompatible due to GPL-only symbol ‘cpu_tlbstate’. #epicfail”

Also:

https://twitter.com/tomasz_gwozdz/status/948590364679655429

https://twitter.com/BitsAndChipsEng/status/948578609761054721

Cheers, Zube

2 thoughts on - Possible Issue With Nvidia And New Patches?

I’ve seen no obvious problems with kernel-3.10.0-693.11.6.el7.x86_64 and nvidia-x11-drv-384.98-2.el7.elrepo.x86_64.

This includes running under KVM with vfio passthrough.

Apparently CentOS kernels are not affected. I don’t see symbol
cpu_tlbstate
.

Akemi

2 thoughts on - Possible Issue With Nvidia And New Patches?