[lustre-discuss] Compiling from sources with Debian 8

[Dilger, Andreas]

The 2.3.64 version means you are using the in-kernel Lustre client (confirmed by the waning messages about "staging"), and not the 2.7.x version from the Lustre master branch.

It looks like Ubuntu is building the in-kernel client, and your modules are not being loaded.

Cheers, Andreas

On Nov 28, 2015, at 03:26, Jérôme BECOT <jerome.becot at inserm.fr<mailto:jerome.becot at inserm.fr>> wrote:

Hi there,

We run lustre 2.6/2.7 on our Centos 6.6 (servers) and 7 (clients) cluster. We have a few webservers running Debian that need to access the storage. I followed the procedure given by Thomas Stibor about Ubuntu 14 last year.

I could successfully compile the binaries and modules after some digging. He also left an already compiled lustre 2.7.63 and modules for kernel 3.16.0-4 online.

If I install his binaries, it works well. If I install the one generated by the procedure, the modules don't load and a weird thing happen. Running dmesg warns me about one surprising thing :

 > With his packages
[212417.535369] LNet: HW CPU cores: 1, npartitions: 1
[212417.538430] alg: No test for adler32 (adler32-zlib)
[212417.538456] alg: No test for crc32 (crc32-table)
[212425.548907] Lustre: Lustre: Build Version: v2_7_60_0-ge686e57-CHANGED-3.16.0-4-amd64
[212425.565330] LNet: Added LNI 172.27.7.118 at tcp1 [8/256/0/180]
[212425.565354] LNet: Accept secure, port 988
[212425.595531] Lustre: Mounted lustre-client

> With mine
[209942.090874] LNet: HW CPU cores: 1, npartitions: 1
[209942.092902] alg: No test for adler32 (adler32-zlib)
[209950.092501] lnet: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[209950.093589] lvfs: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[209950.094634] obdclass: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[209950.098595] Lustre: Lustre: Build Version: v2_3_64_0-g6e62c21-CHANGED-3.9.0
[209950.099999] ptlrpc: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[209950.104615] ksocklnd: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[209950.105237] LNetError: 845:0:(linux-tcpip.c:82:libcfs_ipif_query()) Can't get flags for interface eth0
[209950.105862] LNetError: 845:0:(socklnd.c:2824:ksocknal_startup()) Can't get interface eth0 info: -515
[209951.104194] LNetError: 105-4: Error -100 starting up LNI tcp
[209951.104852] LustreError: 845:0:(events.c:566:ptlrpc_init_portals()) network initialisation failed
[209990.787541] ptlrpc: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.

I pulled the master git branch, and coul obtain
linux-patch-lustre_2.7.63.0-16-g8524994_all.deb  lustre-client-modules-3.16.7-ckt11-lustre-my-build_2.7.63.0-16-g8524994_amd64.deb  lustre-tests_2.7.63.0-16-g8524994_amd64.deb
lustre_2.7.63.0-16-g8524994_amd64.changes        lustre-dev_2.7.63.0-16-g8524994_amd64.deb                                          lustre-utils_2.7.63.0-16-g8524994_amd64.deb
lustre_2.7.63.0-16-g8524994.dsc                  lustre-release
lustre_2.7.63.0-16-g8524994.tar.gz               lustre-source_2.7.63.0-16-g8524994_all.deb

I just don't get it. Why the shown version of the module is 2.3 ?
I tried to compile from the 2.7 branch but the 2.7.0 version doesn't compile with kernel 3.16, as suggested in LU-7042

I probably miss something. Sorry I'm not familiar with compilers (usually the ./configure && make && make install works or warns you about missing dependencies and i don't go farther).

Thank you

Jerome

PS : Here is the procedure followed to compile


apt-get install linux-headers-3.16.0-4-amd64 libtool automake linux-source-3.16
git clone git://git.whamcloud.com/fs/lustre-release.git
cd /usr/src/
tar xf linux-source-3.16.tar.xz
cd /home/build/lustre-release/
vi debian/rules (edit so it doesn't stop with autogen because it doesn't find the kernel sources)
(modify --with-linux= option with current path --with-linux=/usr/src/linux-3.16 in kdist_config section)
aptitude install module-assistant libreadline-dev debhelper  dpatch libsnmp-dev quilt devscripts
 vi debian/control
(modify the dependency for unsatisfied linux-headers called linux-headers-something in jessie)
vi compile.sh
#!/bin/bash
unset DEBEMAIL
unset EMAIL
unset DEBFULLNAME
unset NAME

export DEBFULLNAME="Niemand Nobody"
export EMAIL="npcomplete at example.com<http://example.com>"

# Extract lustre version, replace "_" by "." and remove leading letter "v".
LUSTRE_VERSION=$(echo `git describe` | sed -e "s/_/\./g" | cut -c2-)

# Add entry into debian/changelog such that packages have proper version names.
dch --newversion $LUSTRE_VERSION --distribution unstable --nomultimaint -t "Build from official master upstream."

#
sh ./autogen.sh

# Build debian packages.
dpkg-buildpackage

# Build modules.
#export MODULE_LOC=${PWD}
#cd /usr/src/linux
#make-kpkg modules_image --append-to-version -lustre-my-build --revision `date +"%Y%m%d"`

Then i got stuck on "checking for external module build target" for a while, fixed by running "make scripts" in the kernel source folder
It finally compiled !

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