[gpfsug-discuss] GPL compilation failure

[Ryan Novosielski]

Sorry, one more thing: while you can often upgrade from say 3.10.0-1160.92.1 to 3.10.0-1160.95.1, like the kind of upgrade you’d see within an RHEL point release — and you’ll often see an older version get updated to list support for those kinds of version increments — you should definitely expect to potentially need to upgrade GPFS if you’re going between RHEL point releases, like 8.7 to 8.8 — those ones that change from, say, 4.18.0-425.x to 4.18.0-477.x.

Sometimes unsupported versions will work, but often times they will not, and if you have a support contract, that difference is sort of meaningless since you wouldn’t want to run an unsupported version anyway.

On Aug 17, 2023, at 12:38, Ryan Novosielski <novosirj at rutgers.edu> wrote:

Not supported on that GPFS version; probably need a 5.1.8.x — definitely supported on 5.1.8.1.

Always check here before upgrading the kernel:

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-scale?topic=STXKQY/gpfsclustersfaq.html

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On Aug 17, 2023, at 11:54, Uwe Falke <uwe.falke at kit.edu> wrote:


Hi, just to let you know:

building the 5.1.7.1 GPL layer for Linux Kernel 4.18.0-477.21.1.el8_8.x86_64 failed for me:

[...]

In file included from /usr/lpp/mmfs/src/gpl-linux/cfiles.c:87,
                 from /usr/lpp/mmfs/src/gpl-linux/cfiles_cust.c:54:
/usr/lpp/mmfs/src/gpl-linux/cxiCache.c: In function 'pcache_nfs_have_rdirplus':
/usr/lpp/mmfs/src/gpl-linux/cxiCache.c:4011:31: error: 'NFS_INO_ADVISE_RDPLUS' undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean 'NFS_INO_ODIRECT'?
                   && test_bit(NFS_INO_ADVISE_RDPLUS, &NFS_I(inodeP)->flags)
                               ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
                               NFS_INO_ODIRECT
/usr/lpp/mmfs/src/gpl-linux/cxiCache.c:4011:31: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
[...]



If anyone managed to build that, a message would be nice, else you should expect problems.

I opened a case with IBM but it is caught in the call entry ... (SF TS013920636, in case any supporter wants to look after it).

Uwe

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