NVIDIA Open Kernel build in Gentoo Linux on WMWare ESXi

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NVIDIA kernel message error when boot.
System:

  1. Linux Gentoo (Profile Clang) (As VM)
  2. Compiler Clang-19
  3. Kernel 6.12.16 (refer Gentoo Wiki for kernel mod-NVIDIA)
  4. NVIDIA Open Kernel 570.124.06
  5. GPU model: H100 PCie
  6. VMWare ESXi v8.0.2
    Problems
  7. NVIDIA modules built success but system crash when run nvidia-smi.
  8. Run nvidia-persistenced and instantaneously killed, but modprobe process/PID got 100% CPU, cannot kill/SIGKILL.
  9. Below dmesg output:
[    9.271034] nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
[    9.352730] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008
[    9.353009] #PF: supervisor instruction fetch in kernel mode
[    9.353199] #PF: error_code(0x0010) - not-present page
[    9.353380] PGD 0 P4D 0
[    9.353564] Oops: Oops: 0010 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
[    9.353745] CPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 1294 Comm: (udev-worker) Tainted: G           O                                                                                          6.12.16-gentoo #9
[    9.353927] Tainted: [O]=OOT_MODULE
[    9.354099] Hardware name: VMware, Inc. VMware20,1/440BX Desktop Reference Platform                                                                                   , BIOS VMW201.00V.21805430.B64.2305221830 05/22/2023
[    9.354282] RIP: 0010:0x8
[    9.354464] Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0xffffffffffffffde.
# end with this
[    9.370731] note: (udev-worker)[1294] exited with irqs disabled

It’s error occured from hypervisor? or
GPU state in ‘suspend’ cannot resume? or
Compiler version on kernel and modules? or anything else i miss.
Help me figure this out.
Thx

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I got a similar kernel OOPS with the 570 driver on my Desktop on Gentoo. However, I use the proprietary kernel modules:

Will try the 570.133.07 this weekend.

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Need to fix this linker (Clang with LLD):

cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version -v
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX Open Kernel Module for x86_64  570.124.06  Release Build  (root@gentoo92)  Tue Mar 25 06:13:44 PM -00 2025
GCC version:  clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)