Comment 4 for bug 2062380

Compiling the Nvidia drivers with -ffixed-x18 on affected versions is also sufficient to prevent this hang/panic:

https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules

diff --git a/src/nvidia-modeset/Makefile b/src/nvidia-modeset/Makefile
index 66edbf4e..d49a3bfb 100644
--- a/src/nvidia-modeset/Makefile
+++ b/src/nvidia-modeset/Makefile
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ endif
 ifeq ($(TARGET_ARCH),aarch64)
   CFLAGS += -mgeneral-regs-only
   CFLAGS += -march=armv8-a
+ CFLAGS += -ffixed-x18
   CONDITIONAL_CFLAGS += $(call TEST_CC_ARG, -mno-outline-atomics)
 endif

diff --git a/src/nvidia/Makefile b/src/nvidia/Makefile
index e2f1c672..0f70514b 100644
--- a/src/nvidia/Makefile
+++ b/src/nvidia/Makefile
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ ifeq ($(TARGET_ARCH),aarch64)
   CFLAGS += -mgeneral-regs-only
   CFLAGS += -march=armv8-a
   CFLAGS += -mstrict-align
+ CFLAGS += -ffixed-x18
   CONDITIONAL_CFLAGS += $(call TEST_CC_ARG, -mno-outline-atomics)
 endif