Tentative fix for NVIDIA 470.182.03 driver for Linux 6.5-rc1

nvidia-470xx-fix-linux-6.5.patch

From 0ca9614e5b074d3dd01e95f47b3555f48e74f622 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Joan=20Bruguera=20Mic=C3=B3?= <joanbrugueram@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 May 2023 21:54:08 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Tentative fix for NVIDIA 470.182.03 driver for Linux 6.5-rc1

---
 common/inc/nv-mm.h | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/common/inc/nv-mm.h b/common/inc/nv-mm.h
index 54f6f60..25333e8 100644
--- a/common/inc/nv-mm.h
+++ b/common/inc/nv-mm.h
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 #ifndef __NV_MM_H__
 #define __NV_MM_H__
 
+#include <linux/version.h>
 #include "conftest.h"
 
 #if !defined(NV_VM_FAULT_T_IS_PRESENT)
@@ -47,7 +48,27 @@ typedef int vm_fault_t;
  *
  */
 
-#if defined(NV_GET_USER_PAGES_HAS_TASK_STRUCT)
+// Rel. commit. "mm/gup: remove unused vmas parameter from get_user_pages()" (Lorenzo Stoakes, 14 May 2023)
+#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(6, 5, 0)
+#include <linux/mm.h>
+
+static inline long NV_GET_USER_PAGES(unsigned long start,
+                                     unsigned long nr_pages,
+                                     int write,
+                                     int force,
+                                     struct page **pages,
+                                     struct vm_area_struct **vmas)
+{
+    unsigned int flags = 0;
+
+    if (write)
+        flags |= FOLL_WRITE;
+    if (force)
+        flags |= FOLL_FORCE;
+
+    return get_user_pages(start, nr_pages, flags, pages);
+}
+#elif defined(NV_GET_USER_PAGES_HAS_TASK_STRUCT)
     #if defined(NV_GET_USER_PAGES_HAS_WRITE_AND_FORCE_ARGS)
         #define NV_GET_USER_PAGES(start, nr_pages, write, force, pages, vmas) \
             get_user_pages(current, current->mm, start, nr_pages, write, force, pages, vmas)
@@ -130,7 +151,27 @@ typedef int vm_fault_t;
  *
  */
 
-#if defined(NV_GET_USER_PAGES_REMOTE_PRESENT)
+// Rel. commit. "mm/gup: remove unused vmas parameter from get_user_pages_remote()" (Lorenzo Stoakes, 14 May 2023)
+#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(6, 5, 0)
+static inline long NV_GET_USER_PAGES_REMOTE(struct task_struct *tsk,
+                                            struct mm_struct *mm,
+                                            unsigned long start,
+                                            unsigned long nr_pages,
+                                            int write,
+                                            int force,
+                                            struct page **pages,
+                                            struct vm_area_struct **vmas)
+{
+    unsigned int flags = 0;
+
+    if (write)
+        flags |= FOLL_WRITE;
+    if (force)
+        flags |= FOLL_FORCE;
+
+    return get_user_pages_remote(mm, start, nr_pages, flags, pages, NULL);
+}
+#elif defined(NV_GET_USER_PAGES_REMOTE_PRESENT)
     #if defined(NV_GET_USER_PAGES_REMOTE_HAS_WRITE_AND_FORCE_ARGS)
         #define NV_GET_USER_PAGES_REMOTE    get_user_pages_remote
     #else
-- 
2.41.0

@joanbm thank you for quick reply, i have kali with kernel 6.5 and have Nvidia 720m with no driver now (390xx) , @AntonioTrindade said the patch 470xx work with 390xx can you confirm ? And what you propose ? The guide you give, I'm already tried and i had some errors. Have a nice day.

@Abdou-St-009 Honestly, you're probably going to have a much easier time if you either switch to the Nouveau open source driver, or switch to a more stable distribution (like Ubuntu 22.04 or Debian Bullseye) which provides official packages for the 390xx driver branch. Using the somewhat-abandoned 390xx driver with a rolling release distribution is most likely going to be a PITA.

If you want to try to do it anyway, there's an AUR package for Arch for nvidia-390xx (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nvidia-390xx-dkms) which has various patches to make the driver work up to Linux 6.5, see https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/?h=nvidia-390xx-utils. But as I said, it's probably going to be painful to get and keep such a setup working.

I am grateful and will take your advice into consideration.

@blastwave FWIW there's a new driver version in the 470xx branch that builds up to Linux 6.6 without third-party patches, you may want to try it: https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/215840/en-us/

@joanbm thank you for quick reply, i have kali with kernel 6.5 and have Nvidia 720m with no driver now (390xx) , @AntonioTrindade said the patch 470xx work with 390xx can you confirm ? And what you propose ? The guide you give, I'm already tried and i had some errors. Have a nice day.

Honestly I do not remember if I used the 470xx patch as is or not. I patched the files manually and created a patch file for myself and have had no problems since I reported the compilation problem, even after several kernel upgrades.

@joanbm thank you for quick reply, i have kali with kernel 6.5 and have Nvidia 720m with no driver now (390xx) , @AntonioTrindade said the patch 470xx work with 390xx can you confirm ? And what you propose ? The guide you give, I'm already tried and i had some errors. Have a nice day.

Honestly I do not remember if I used the 470xx patch as is or not. I patched the files manually and created a patch file for myself and have had no problems since I reported the compilation problem, even after several kernel upgrades.

Hey @AntonioTrindade
Can you please help me to find the driver 390.x for my Debian and i have old Gpu Nvidia gt720m and my kernel is 6.5 and no official driver from Nvidia site for this kernel yet and i got very tired to find it.
Have a good day

@Abdou-St-009, If you are using Debian Sid, just install nvidia-legacy-390xx-driver.
If you are using Debian stable, change your apt.sources.list to Sid, run "apt update; apt install nvidia-legacy-390xx-driver" and change back the apt.sources.list to your Debian version and rerun "apt update".
WARNING: after editing apt.sources.list to Sid DO NOT RUN "apt upgrade"!