Hi,
After upgrading to Linux 4.11 when rebooting the system displayed a message that loading a kernel module has been failed. So I ran
dkms autoinstall
again. And the error was with building the NVIDIA module. Please refer the dkms** log **I copied down below. Is there any patch has been released for this or is there any workaround?
Thanks! 
DKMS make.log for nvidia-375.39 for kernel 4.11.0-1-default (x86_64)
Sat May 20 18:22:40 +0530 2017
make "CC=cc" KBUILD_OUTPUT=/lib/modules/4.11.0-1-default/build KBUILD_VERBOSE= -C /lib/modules/4.11.0-1-default/source M=/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/375.39/build ARCH=x86_64 NV_K
ERNEL_SOURCES=/lib/modules/4.11.0-1-default/source NV_KERNEL_OUTPUT=/lib/modules/4.11.0-1-default/build NV_KERNEL_MODULES="nvidia nvidia-uvm nvidia-modeset nvidia-drm" INS
TALL_MOD_DIR=kernel/drivers/video modules
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-4.11.0-1'
make[2]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-4.11.0-1-obj/x86_64/default'
/usr/src/linux-4.11.0-1/Makefile:929: "Cannot use CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION, please install libelf-dev, libelf-devel or elfutils-libelf-devel"
CONFTEST: INIT_WORK
CONFTEST: remap_pfn_range
CONFTEST: follow_pfn
CONFTEST: vmap
CONFTEST: set_pages_uc
CONFTEST: set_memory_uc
CONFTEST: set_memory_array_uc
CONFTEST: change_page_attr
CONFTEST: pci_get_class
CONFTEST: pci_choose_state
CONFTEST: vm_insert_page
CONFTEST: acpi_device_id
CONFTEST: acquire_console_sem
CONFTEST: console_lock
CONFTEST: kmem_cache_create
CONFTEST: on_each_cpu
CONFTEST: smp_call_function
CONFTEST: acpi_evaluate_integer
CONFTEST: ioremap_cache
CONFTEST: ioremap_wc
CONFTEST: acpi_walk_namespace
CONFTEST: pci_domain_nr
CONFTEST: pci_dma_mapping_error
CONFTEST: sg_alloc_table
CONFTEST: sg_init_table
CONFTEST: pci_get_domain_bus_and_slot
CONFTEST: get_num_physpages
CONFTEST: efi_enabled
CONFTEST: proc_create_data
CONFTEST: pde_data
CONFTEST: proc_remove
CONFTEST: pm_vt_switch_required
CONFTEST: drm_driver_has_set_busid
CONFTEST: drm_driver_has_gem_prime_res_obj
CONFTEST: xen_ioemu_inject_msi
CONFTEST: phys_to_dma
CONFTEST: get_dma_ops
CONFTEST: write_cr4
CONFTEST: of_parse_phandle
CONFTEST: for_each_online_node
CONFTEST: node_end_pfn
CONFTEST: pci_bus_address
CONFTEST: pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device
CONFTEST: pci_remove_bus_device
CONFTEST: request_threaded_irq
CONFTEST: remap_page_range
CONFTEST: address_space_init_once
CONFTEST: kbasename
CONFTEST: fatal_signal_pending
CONFTEST: list_cut_position
CONFTEST: vzalloc
CONFTEST: wait_on_bit_lock_argument_count
CONFTEST: bitmap_clear
CONFTEST: usleep_range
CONFTEST: radix_tree_empty
CONFTEST: drm_dev_unref
CONFTEST: drm_reinit_primary_mode_group
CONFTEST: drm_atomic_set_mode_for_crtc
CONFTEST: drm_atomic_clean_old_fb
CONFTEST: get_user_pages_remote
CONFTEST: drm_gem_object_lookup
CONFTEST: drm_atomic_state_free
CONFTEST: i2c_adapter
CONFTEST: pm_message_t
CONFTEST: irq_handler_t
CONFTEST: acpi_device_ops
CONFTEST: acpi_op_remove
CONFTEST: outer_flush_all
CONFTEST: proc_dir_entry
CONFTEST: scatterlist
CONFTEST: sg_table
CONFTEST: file_operations
CONFTEST: vm_operations_struct
CONFTEST: atomic_long_type
CONFTEST: pci_save_state
CONFTEST: file_inode
CONFTEST: task_struct
CONFTEST: kuid_t
CONFTEST: dma_ops
CONFTEST: dma_map_ops
CONFTEST: noncoherent_swiotlb_dma_ops
CONFTEST: vm_fault_present
CONFTEST: fault_flags
CONFTEST: atomic64_type
CONFTEST: address_space
CONFTEST: backing_dev_info
CONFTEST: kernel_write
CONFTEST: strnstr
CONFTEST: iterate_dir
CONFTEST: kstrtoull
CONFTEST: mm_context_t
CONFTEST: vm_fault_has_address
CONFTEST: drm_bus_present
CONFTEST: drm_bus_has_bus_type
CONFTEST: drm_bus_has_get_irq
CONFTEST: drm_bus_has_get_name
CONFTEST: drm_driver_has_legacy_dev_list
CONFTEST: drm_crtc_state_has_connectors_changed
CONFTEST: drm_init_functions_have_name_arg
CONFTEST: drm_mode_connector_list_update_has_merge_type_bits_arg
CONFTEST: drm_helper_mode_fill_fb_struct_has_const_mode_cmd_arg
CONFTEST: drm_master_drop_has_from_release_arg
CONFTEST: drm_mode_config_funcs_has_atomic_state_alloc
CONFTEST: dom0_kernel_present
CONFTEST: nvidia_vgpu_kvm_build
CONFTEST: drm_available
CONFTEST: nvidia_grid_build
CONFTEST: drm_atomic_available
CONFTEST: drm_atomic_modeset_nonblocking_commit_available
CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/375.39/build/nvidia/nv-frontend.o
CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/375.39/build/nvidia/nv-instance.o
CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/375.39/build/nvidia/nv.o
CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/375.39/build/nvidia/nv-acpi.o
CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/375.39/build/nvidia/nv-chrdev.o
CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/375.39/build/nvidia/nv-cray.o
CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/375.39/build/nvidia/nv-dma.o
CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/375.39/build/nvidia/nv-gvi.o
CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/375.39/build/nvidia/nv-i2c.o
CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/375.39/build/nvidia/nv-mempool.o
CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/375.39/build/nvidia/nv-mmap.o
CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/375.39/build/nvidia/nv-p2p.o
CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/375.39/build/nvidia/nv-pat.o
/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/375.39/build/nvidia/nv-pat.c: In function ‘nvidia_cpu_callback’:
/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/375.39/build/nvidia/nv-pat.c:213:14: error: ‘CPU_DOWN_FAILED’ undeclared (first use in this function)
case CPU_DOWN_FAILED:
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/375.39/build/nvidia/nv-pat.c:213:14: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/375.39/build/nvidia/nv-pat.c:220:14: error: ‘CPU_DOWN_PREPARE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
case CPU_DOWN_PREPARE:
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/375.39/build/nvidia/nv-pat.c:15:0:
/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/375.39/build/nvidia/nv-pat.c: In function ‘nv_init_pat_support’:
/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/375.39/build/common/inc/nv-linux.h:391:34: error: implicit declaration of function ‘register_cpu_notifier’ -Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
#define register_hotcpu_notifier register_cpu_notifier
^
/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/375.39/build/nvidia/nv-pat.c:258:17: note: in expansion of macro ‘register_hotcpu_notifier’
if (register_hotcpu_notifier(&nv_hotcpu_nfb) != 0)
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/375.39/build/nvidia/nv-pat.c: In function ‘nv_teardown_pat_support’:
/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/375.39/build/common/inc/nv-linux.h:388:36: error: implicit declaration of function ‘unregister_cpu_notifier’ -Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
#define unregister_hotcpu_notifier unregister_cpu_notifier
^
/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/375.39/build/nvidia/nv-pat.c:283:9: note: in expansion of macro ‘unregister_hotcpu_notifier’
unregister_hotcpu_notifier(&nv_hotcpu_nfb);
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
make[3]: *** [/usr/src/linux-4.11.0-1/scripts/Makefile.build:296: /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/375.39/build/nvidia/nv-pat.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/usr/src/linux-4.11.0-1/Makefile:1502: _module_/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/375.39/build] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-4.11.0-1-obj/x86_64/default'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:152: sub-make] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-4.11.0-1'
make: *** [Makefile:81: modules] Error 2