[Lustre-discuss] OFED 1.1 and 1.2

[Jody McIntyre]

Hi Kit,

On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 11:24:52AM -0400, Kit Westneat wrote:

> Are there any plans to release something like the ibvers.sh script with 
> Lustre? I think that having an easy automated workaround, even if it is 
> a hack, is better then having none. Even just some documentation about 
> the problem would be helpful I think. From what I can tell, the extra 
> Module.symvers functionality was added in kernel 2.6.17, so this bug not 
> only affects RHEL4 but also SLES10. I'm glad to know it is a known issue 
> though, and I am not just crazy :-)

It's in SLES 10 - must have been backported by Novell.  I ran into this
issue when working on bug 12842.  That bug contains patches to backport
the fix to RHEL 4 and SLES 9, which may help with the OFED issue as
well, but likely something else needs to be done to actually _use_ the
new modpost features as well.

Cheers,
Jody

> Thanks,
> Kit
> 
> Liang Zhen gmail wrote:
> > Hi Kit,
> > Yes we have met this problem for kernel doesn't support extra
> > Module.symvers file, there are some discussing on this:
> > https://bugzilla.lustre.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12316
> > Openfabric has discussing on this too:
> > http://lists.openfabrics.org/pipermail/ewg/2007-February/002701.html
> > the resolution is somehow hacking, so we haven't put it in release.
> >
> > Regards
> > Liang
> >
> >
> > Kit Westneat wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I had problems with missing modules errors, but the problem I had was 
> >> that the Lustre compilation process was picking up the symbol 
> >> versions of the original OFED stack, and not the new symbols. What I 
> >> finally had to do was edit /usr/src/linux/Modules.symvers and delete 
> >> every line containing the word infiniband. After that I ran configure 
> >> --with-o2ib=/usr/src/openib, and it worked fine. You can tell if you 
> >> are running into the same problem by looking at /var/log/messages. 
> >> There will be a bunch of messages saying something to the effect of 
> >> version mismatch with various functions.
> >>
> >> I'm not sure if anyone else is running into that, but it took me 
> >> forever to figure out.
> >>
> >> - Kit
> >>
> >> Thomas Blum wrote:
> >>  
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> at the moment I'm trying to get a system running with 
> >>> 2.6.16-46-0.14_lustre.1.6.2smp and OFED1.2 but experience a lot of 
> >>> problems. The first is described in bugzilla 13639. To build the 
> >>> OFED stack you have to do some fixes in OFED scripts or do a 
> >>> recompile of the Lustre kernel with a new naming like 
> >>> 2.6.16.46-0.14-lustre.1.6.2smp. After that you will be able to build 
> >>> the OFED packages but you also have to recompile the lustre-modules 
> >>> and lustre "tools" which doesn't work well at the moment because it 
> >>> seems that some modules are missing and are not integrated into the 
> >>> new rpms.
> >>>
> >>> Best regards
> >>>
> >>> Thomas
> >>>
> >>> H. N. HARAKE schrieb:
> >>>      
> >>>> Did anyone managed to build packages  of the OFED 1.2.X on any of  
> >>>> these kernels:
> >>>> I believe that 1.1 and 1.2 should  supported as mentioned by the  
> >>>> release notes.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> 2.6.16-27-0.9_lustre-1.6.0.1smp
> >>>> 2.6.16-46-0.14_lustre.1.6.2smp
> >>>>
> >>>> Best Regards
> >>>> H. N. Harake
> >>>>
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