Re: kldload: can't load /boot/modules/vboxdrv.ko: Exec format error

On 07/21/12 17:59, Brandon Gooch wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 10:11 AM, O. Hartmann
> <ohartman_at_zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>> On 07/21/12 16:53, O. Hartmann wrote:
>>> On FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #1 r238671: Sat Jul 21 16:21:32 CEST 2012
>>> (/usr/src recently update, is at Revision: 238672), VirtualBox seems to
>>> be broken:
>>>
>>> kldload: can't load /boot/modules/vboxdrv.ko: Exec format error
>>>
>>> When both buildworld and kernel as well as /usr/src itself were at
>>> Revision: 238671, I did a build of the whole port
>>> /emulators/virtual-box-ose[-kmod] to prevent the vboxdrv.ko kernel
>>> module located in /boot/modules/ and its siblings being in sync with
>>> /usr/src.
>>>
>>> But it doesn't work. I searched the net and I only found hints of the
>>> form that both, /usr/src and the last time the module
>>> /emulators/virtual-box-ose-kmod has been build are out of sync. This is
>>> not the case in my case.
>>>
>>> VirtualBox is at version 4.1.18.
>>>
>>> What is wrong? Am I wrong and repeating an error over and over again?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Oliver
>>>
>>
>> I found this in the message log:
>>
>> Jul 21 16:41:37 <0.2> thor kernel: link_elf_obj: symbol
>> vm_contig_grow_cache undefined
>> Jul 21 16:41:37 <0.2> thor kernel: KLD file vboxdrv.ko - could not
>> finalize loading
>>
> 
> The function vm_contig_grow_cache was renamed:
> 
> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=238561
> 
> Apply the following patch in
> ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose-kmod/files, then rebuild the kmod:
> 
> Index: patch-src-VBox-Runtime-r0drv-freebsd-memobj-r0drv-freebsd.c
> ===================================================================
> --- patch-src-VBox-Runtime-r0drv-freebsd-memobj-r0drv-freebsd.c
> (revision 301265)
> +++ patch-src-VBox-Runtime-r0drv-freebsd-memobj-r0drv-freebsd.c (working copy)
> _at__at_ -149,7 +149,7 _at__at_
>  +        VM_OBJECT_UNLOCK(pObject);
>  +        if (pPages || tries >= 1)
>  +            break;
> -+        vm_contig_grow_cache(tries, 0, VmPhysAddrHigh);
> ++        vm_pageout_grow_cache(tries, 0, VmPhysAddrHigh);
>  +        tries++;
>  +    }
>  +    return pPages;
> _at__at_ -176,7 +176,7 _at__at_
>  +        pPages = vm_phys_alloc_contig(cPages, 0, VmPhysAddrHigh,
> uAlignment, 0);
>  +        if (pPages || tries >= 1)
>  +            break;
> -+        vm_contig_grow_cache(tries, 0, VmPhysAddrHigh);
> ++        vm_pageout_grow_cache(tries, 0, VmPhysAddrHigh);
>  +        tries++;
>  +    }
>  +    if (!pPages)
> 
> Let us know if it works.
> 
> -Brandon
> 


Patch applied and it seems to work (I guess it works when I'm able to
start Windows 7 sucessfully?) ...

Thank you very much and in hope that the pacth makes it into the ports,

regsrds,
Oliver