install client 7.3.2 on linux debian

[Delmotte Stéphane]

Hi

I try to install the beegfs-7.3.2 client on the linux distribution and I always get this error:
/opt/beegfs/src/client/client_module_7/build/../source/common/Common.h:16:10: fatal error: stdarg.h: No such file or directory

I have installed everything I think I need to:
linux-headers-5.18.0-0.deb11.4-amd64
my kernel is : Linux pbil-deb40 5.18.0-0.deb11.4-amd64
if I look for the missing file I find it
/usr/src# find . -name stdarg.h
./linux-headers-5.18.0-0.deb11.4-common/include/linux/stdarg.h

what do I have to do to make it work

thanks
Stéphane

[Paolo Oliveri]

Hello,

Since a recent kernel, the position of stdarg.h has been changed.

You have to replace:

#include <stdarg.h>

to

#include <linux/stdarg.h>

in Common.h file.

I'm working on RHEL9 distribution and get into this error when upgrading kernel from

5.14.0-70.13.1.el9_0.x86_64

to

5.14.0-162.6.1.el9_1.0.1.x86_64

i.e. when upgrading from RHEL 9.0 to RHEL 9.1. With the previous kernel the client module built fine.

However, I have other errors during compilation that I am trying to fix without any luck for now, please tell me if in your machine with the editing to Common.h the client module builds correctly.

[Paolo Oliveri]

I finally completed kernel module building without errors.

There is another modify due to deprecation of PDE_DATA variable and its sostitution with pde_data. More info here:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20220122061423.HMq1py5Q0%25a...@linux-foundation.org/

https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/13004 (similar issue for openzfs)

So, the editing that I had to do in source code are the following:

sed -i 's|#include <stdarg.h>|//#include <linux/stdarg.h>|g' /opt/beegfs/src/client/client_module_7/source/common/Common.h

sed -i 's/PDE_DATA(const struct inode *)/pde_data(const struct inode *inode)/g' /opt/beegfs/src/client/client_module_7/build/KernelFeatureDetection.mk

sed -i 's/PDE_DATA(/pde_data(/g' /opt/beegfs/src/client/client_module_7/source/filesystem/ProcFs.c

[James Hutton]

I'm trying to get this working on Rocky 9 (5.14.0-162.23.1) and have made the changes that Paolo suggested, but still getting the following errors. Any ideas?

/opt/beegfs/src/client/client_module_7/build/../source/filesystem/ProcFs.c: In function '__ProcFs_mkDir':
/opt/beegfs/src/client/client_module_7/build/../source/filesystem/ProcFs.c:672:17: error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct proc_dir_entry'
  672 |          procDir->data = data;
      |                 ^~
/opt/beegfs/src/client/client_module_7/build/../source/filesystem/ProcFs.c: In function '__ProcFs_getProcDirEntryDataField':
/opt/beegfs/src/client/client_module_7/build/../source/filesystem/ProcFs.c:696:42: error: implicit declaration of function 'PDE' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
  696 |       struct proc_dir_entry* procEntry = PDE(procInode);
      |                                          ^~~
/opt/beegfs/src/client/client_module_7/build/../source/filesystem/ProcFs.c:696:42: warning: initialization of 'struct proc_dir_entry *' from 'int' makes pointer from integer without a cast [-Wint-conversion]
/opt/beegfs/src/client/client_module_7/build/../source/filesystem/ProcFs.c:698:23: error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct proc_dir_entry'
  698 |       return procEntry->data; // (app is stored as ->data in parent dir)
      |                       ^~
/opt/beegfs/src/client/client_module_7/build/../source/filesystem/ProcFs.c: In function '__ProcFs_getProcParentDirEntryDataField':
/opt/beegfs/src/client/client_module_7/build/../source/filesystem/ProcFs.c:719:42: warning: initialization of 'struct proc_dir_entry *' from 'int' makes pointer from integer without a cast [-Wint-conversion]
  719 |       struct proc_dir_entry* procEntry = PDE(procInode);
      |                                          ^~~
/opt/beegfs/src/client/client_module_7/build/../source/filesystem/ProcFs.c:721:23: error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct proc_dir_entry'
  721 |       return procEntry->parent->data; // (app is stored as ->data in parent dir)
      |                       ^~
/opt/beegfs/src/client/client_module_7/build/../source/filesystem/ProcFs.c: In function '__ProcFs_getProcDirEntryDataField':
/opt/beegfs/src/client/client_module_7/build/../source/filesystem/ProcFs.c:701:1: error: control reaches end of non-void function [-Werror=return-type]
  701 | }
      | ^
/opt/beegfs/src/client/client_module_7/build/../source/filesystem/ProcFs.c: In function '__ProcFs_getProcParentDirEntryDataField':
/opt/beegfs/src/client/client_module_7/build/../source/filesystem/ProcFs.c:724:1: error: control reaches end of non-void function [-Werror=return-type]
  724 | }
      | ^