fix: create /dev/nvidia* nodes in bee-nvidia — mdev has no NVIDIA rules

Alpine uses mdev which has no rules for NVIDIA devices. Without /dev/nvidiactl
and /dev/nvidia{0-7}, nvidia-smi returns NVML_ERROR_LIBRARY_NOT_FOUND (exit 12)
even though kernel modules are loaded and libraries are present.

Fix: after insmod, read major numbers from /proc/devices and mknod the required
character devices (/dev/nvidiactl, /dev/nvidia{0-7}, /dev/nvidia-uvm).

Add /dev/nvidia* node checks to smoketest for earlier failure detection.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
Mikhail Chusavitin
2026-03-08 14:42:18 +03:00
parent 98f14b21c1
commit 5db3c3c74c
2 changed files with 31 additions and 0 deletions

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@@ -47,5 +47,26 @@ start() {
fi
done
# Create /dev/nvidia* device nodes — mdev on Alpine does not have NVIDIA rules,
# so the kernel hotplug events are not handled and nodes are never created.
# Without /dev/nvidiactl nvidia-smi returns NVML_ERROR_LIBRARY_NOT_FOUND (exit 12).
nvidia_major=$(grep -m1 ' nvidiactl$' /proc/devices 2>/dev/null | awk '{print $1}')
if [ -n "$nvidia_major" ]; then
mknod -m 666 /dev/nvidiactl c "$nvidia_major" 255 2>/dev/null || true
for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7; do
mknod -m 666 "/dev/nvidia$i" c "$nvidia_major" "$i" 2>/dev/null || true
done
einfo "created /dev/nvidiactl and /dev/nvidia{0-7} (major $nvidia_major)"
else
ewarn "/dev/nvidiactl: nvidia not in /proc/devices — no GPU hardware?"
fi
uvm_major=$(grep -m1 ' nvidia-uvm$' /proc/devices 2>/dev/null | awk '{print $1}')
if [ -n "$uvm_major" ]; then
mknod -m 666 /dev/nvidia-uvm c "$uvm_major" 0 2>/dev/null || true
mknod -m 666 /dev/nvidia-uvm-tools c "$uvm_major" 1 2>/dev/null || true
einfo "created /dev/nvidia-uvm (major $uvm_major)"
fi
eend 0
}