[CentOS] possible issue with nvidia and new patches?

Thu Jan 4 13:29:00 UTC 2018
John Hodrien <J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.uk>

On Thu, 4 Jan 2018, Zube wrote:

> 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

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.

jh