[Click] Linux module crashing

[Roman Chertov]

Sahan,

Can you use serial console to capture the syslog output just as the
machine crashes?  I don't think that the dmesg output that you provided
is complete.  Typically, you will see something "unable to handle NULL
pointer", and then there will be a dump of the stack.

Roman

Sahan Gamage wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I upgraded to latest kernel version supported by click (2.6.24.7) and
> used the latest click from CVS. Also I got the e1000e driver and
> applied Joonwoo's patches. Intially the setup (along with my old
> config file) seemed to work fine. But after several iperf runs, the
> kernel locked up and I had to reset the system.  When I examined the
> kernel log (/var/log/messages) the crash log looked much similar to
> the previous one.
> Any pointers to start debugging the problem is appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> -sahan
> 
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Roman Chertov <rchertov at cs.ucsb.edu> wrote:
>> Sahan Gamage wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am using click1-7.0rc1 with Linux kernel version 2.6.19.2. I am
>> I recommend pulling latest click from git as there were quite a bit of
>> changes after rc1 was released.  Also, I suggest to upgrade to 2.6.24.7
>> kernel.
>>
>>> using the e1000 driver downloaded from Intel web site because the
>>> version supplied with click does not recognize my ethernet card.
>> You might want to try the e1000e module that Joonwoo posted on this
>> list.  You can grep the driver code for your model number to see if it
>> supports it or not.
>>
>>> I want to use click to simulate a long fat network (change just the
>>> delay of network).  I am using click module (using click-install) with
>>> the attached configuration file (some minor tweaks to the supplied
>>> localdelay.click). But when I install click module and run some iperf
>> Good to see that people are looking at samples instead of just asking
>> how to use the FromHost element.
>>
>>> tests the kernel locks up. The out put of dmesg is attached also. (the
>>> message repeated many times).
>> If you upgrade to later kernel/Click versions this might go away as
>> there were several patches to ToDevice to address various lockup issues.
>>
>> Roman
>>
>>> If anybody ran into the same problem and have any idea to solve the
>>> problem that would be very helpful.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> -sahan
>>>
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