Re: [Test-Announce] Kernel 6.7 Test Week is underway!

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> On Thu, Feb 1, 2024 at 1:45 AM Leigh Scott <leigh123linux(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
> 
> This is not accurate.  The 6.7.3 (and 6.6.15) updates did break the
> nvidia driver. It has nothing to do with debugging being enabled.   A
> proper and valid bugfix:
> 
> 5ec8e8ea8b7783fab150cf86404fc38cb4db8800 mm/sparsemem: fix race in
> accessing memory_section->usage
> 
> added calls to rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock() which use symbols
> that are exported GPL only. This was not some attempt to stab at
> nvidia, but their non-GPL module is failing as a result because that
> bug fix now pulls those calls into their driver build.  Some people
> have suggested removing the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL on these symbols and
> leaving them as regular exports.  That is not a valid fix for Fedora
> to carry for many reasons.  I will leave 6.7.3 in updates testing for
> a while to give nvidia some time to come up with a work around, but at
> some point things have to move forward, and I will not hold non nvidia
> users bugfixes hostage because of an out of tree driver, this has
> always been Fedora's policy.
> 
> Justin
> 
> > https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6859
> >
> >
> https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/linux-6-7-beta-550-40-07-error-modp...
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Thanks for holding the push to testing, I have managed to patch nvidia 545.xx and 550.xx so
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