4 We currently use the Ubuntu kernel sources, available from our mirror:
6 https://git.proxmox.com/?p=mirror_ubuntu-kernels.git;a=summary
8 Ubuntu will maintain those kernels till:
10 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable
12 https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-pve-faq.html#faq-support-table
14 whatever happens to be earlier.
17 Additional/Updated Modules:
18 ---------------------------
20 - include native OpenZFS filesystem kernel modules for Linux
22 * https://github.com/zfsonlinux/
24 For licensing questions, see: http://open-zfs.org/wiki/Talk:FAQ
30 We track the current upstream repository as submodule. Besides obvious
31 advantages over tracking binary tar archives this also has some implications.
33 For building the submodule directory gets copied into build/ and a few patches
34 get applied with the `patch` tool. From a git point-of-view, the copied
35 directory remains clean even with extra patches applied since it does not
36 contain a .git directory, but a reference to the (still pristine) submodule:
38 $ cat build/ubuntu-kernel/.git
40 If you mistakenly cloned the upstream repo as "normal" clone (not via the
41 submodule mechanics) this means that you have a real .git directory with its
42 independent objects and tracking info when copying for building, thus git
43 operates on the copied directory - and "sees" that it was dirtied by `patch`,
44 and thus the kernel buildsystem sees this too and will add a '+' to the version
45 as a result. This changes the output directories for modules and other build
46 artefacts and let's then the build fail on packaging.
48 So always ensure that you really checked it out as submodule, not as full
49 "normal" clone. You can also explicitly set the LOCALVERSION variable to
50 undefined with: `export LOCALVERSION= but that should only be done for test
59 top level meta package, depends on current default kernel series meta package.
61 git clone git://git.proxmox.com/git/proxmox-ve.git
63 proxmox-default-kernel
64 ----------------------
66 Depends on default kernel and header meta package, e.g., proxmox-kernel-6.2 /
69 git clone git://git.proxmox.com/git/pve-kernel-meta.git
74 Depends on the latest kernel (or header, in case of proxmox-headers-X.Y)
75 package within a certain series.
77 e.g., proxmox-kernel-6.2 depends on proxmox-kernel-6.2.16-6-pve
82 Contains the firmware for all released PVE kernels.
84 git clone git://git.proxmox.com/git/pve-firmware.git
90 ABI versions, package versions and package name:
91 ------------------------------------------------
93 We follow debian's versioning w.r.t ABI changes:
95 https://kernel-team.pages.debian.net/kernel-handbook/ch-versions.html
96 https://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernelABIChanges
98 The debian/rules file has a target comparing the build kernel's ABI against the
99 version stored in the repository and indicates when an ABI bump is necessary.
100 An ABI bump within one upstream version consists of incrementing the KREL
101 variable in the Makefile, rebuilding the packages and running 'make abiupdate'
102 (the 'abiupdate' target in 'Makefile' contains the steps for consistently
103 updating the repository).
108 By default, all watchdog modules are black-listed because it is totally undefined
109 which device is actually used for /dev/watchdog.
110 We ship this list in /lib/modprobe.d/blacklist_proxmox-kernel-<VERSION>.conf
111 The user typically edit /etc/modules to enable a specific watchdog device.
113 Debug kernel and modules
114 ------------------------
116 In order to build a -dbgsym package containing an unstripped copy of the kernel
117 image and modules, enable the 'pkg.proxmox-kernel.debug' build profile (e.g. by
118 exporting DEB_BUILD_PROFILES='pkg.proxmox-kernel.debug'). The resulting package can
119 be used together with 'crash'/'kdump-tools' to debug kernel crashes.
121 Note: the -dbgsym package is only valid for the proxmox-kernel packages produced by
122 the same build. A kernel/module from a different build will likely not match,
123 even if both builds are of the same kernel and package version.
125 Additional information
126 ----------------------
128 We use the default configuration provided by Ubuntu, and apply
129 the following modifications:
131 NOTE: For the exact and current list see debian/rules (PVE_CONFIG_OPTS)
133 - enable INTEL_MEI_WDT=m (to allow disabling via patch)
135 - disable CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS (enabled by default in Ubuntu, not needed)
137 - switch CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE to MADVISE from ALWAYS
139 - enable CONFIG_CEPH_FS=m (request from user)
141 - enable common CONFIG_BLK_DEV_XXX to avoid hardware detection
142 problems (udev, update-initramfs have serious problems without that)
148 - compile NBD and RBD modules
152 - enable IBM JFS file system as module
153 requested by users (bug #64)
155 - enable apple HFS and HFSPLUS as module
158 - enable CONFIG_BCACHE=m (requested by user)
160 - enable CONFIG_BRIDGE=y
161 to avoid warnings on boot, e.g. that net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-iptables is an unknown key
163 - enable CONFIG_DEFAULT_SECURITY_APPARMOR
166 - set CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_PERFORMANCE=y
167 because if not set, it can give some dynamic memory or cpu frequencies
168 change, and vms can crash (mainly windows guest).
169 see http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/18238-Windows-7-x64-VMs-crashing-randomly-during-process-termination?p=93273#post93273
171 - use 'deadline' as default scheduler
172 This is the suggested setting for KVM. We also measure bad fsync performance with ext4 and cfq.
174 - disable CONFIG_INPUT_EVBUG
175 Module evbug is not blacklisted on debian, so we simply disable it to avoid
176 key-event logs (which is a big security problem)
178 - enable CONFIG_MODVERSIONS (needed for ABI tracking)
180 - switch default UNWINDER to FRAME_POINTER
181 the recently introduced ORC_UNWINDER is not 100% stable yet, especially in combination with ZFS
183 - enable CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION (Meltdown mitigation)