[Click] Linux 2.6.24.7 patch in

[springbo at cs.wisc.edu]

Hi Eddie,

I get the GPF independent of traffic flow. Installing with an empty config
and immediately uninstalling reliably causes the GPF.

Thanks!
Kevin



> Kevin,
>
> I have since had the chance to verify that the current proclikefs/kernel
> module combination successfully uninstalls, without patching
> click-uninstall,
> on a 32-bit kernel.  Do you always get a GPF when unloading, or do packets
> have to be going through the router?
>
> Eddie
>
>
> springbo at cs.wisc.edu wrote:
>> Thanks Eddie!
>>
>> I've run into a couple complications:
>> 1) It looks like there is a logic error in Packet::has_network_header().
>> I've attached a patch.
>>
>> 2) click-uninstall'ing the kernel module results in a general protection
>> fault. My configure string is  "./configure --enable-multithread
>> --enable-user-multithread --enable-adaptive --enable-intel-cpu CFLAGS=-g
>> CXXFLAGS=-g". I am building on an x86_64 machine. The click
>> configuration
>> used or the number of threads doesn't seem to affect the problem. See
>> gpf.log for more information.
>>
>> 3) I'm getting warnings when click descends into the kernel source
>> directory to build the module. See warning.log. My guess is that this is
>> due to the improved linuxmodule build process.
>>
>> Polling seems to be working with the e1000-7.6.15.5 driver.
>>
>> Thanks again,
>> Kevin Springborn
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Click has been updated with the patch for Linux 2.6.24.7 support; and
>>> the
>>> Linux 2.6.24.7 patch has been checked into the Click repository.
>>> Please
>>> let
>>> us know if all of this works.  I would love to hear working or not
>>> working
>>> reports from users.
>>>
>>> Thanks very much to, especially, Adam Greenhalgh, Joonwoo Park, and
>>> Nemean
>>> Networks for putting together this patch.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Eddie
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