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Commit f2eaeac7 authored by Bob Lantz's avatar Bob Lantz
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Added patch for 2.6.33.x kernel.

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......@@ -16,13 +16,17 @@ Preliminary Mininet Installation/Configuration Notes
so that 'import mininet' will work, and installs the primary mn
script (mn) as well as its helper utility (mnexec.)
- Mininet requires a kernel built with support for the CLONE_NETNS unshare
flag by default (i.e. with CONFIG_NET_NS turned on.)
- Mininet requires a kernel built with network namespace support enabled,
i.e. with CONFIG_NET_NS=Y
If your kernel doesn't support it, you will need to build and install a
kernel that does! >= 2.6.33 works best, although the reference kernel
switch requires a small patch to compile with it (see below.)
kernel that does! >= 2.6.33 works best, but requires a patch to
ofdatapath and to tun.c (see patches [1] and [2], below.)
2.6.26 works with CONFIG_NET_NS enabled and no additional patches, but
it is much slower at removing veth interfaces, resulting in much slower
switch shutdown.
- Mininet should probably be run either on a machine with
no other important processes, or on a virtual machine.
Multiple concurrent Mininet instances are not supported.
......@@ -71,8 +75,13 @@ Preliminary Mininet Installation/Configuration Notes
---
patch to OpenFlow reference implementation datapath/datapath.c to compile
under linux 2.6.33:
[1] OpenFlow Reference Implementation patch for Linux 2.6.33/2.6.33.1
The OpenFlow kernel reference implementation does not compile out of the box
on Linux 2.6.33/2.6.33.1 with network namespaces enabled.
The following workaround modifies it to always use the root namespace, and should
enable it to work with Mininet under 2.6.33.x:
diff --git a/datapath/datapath.c b/datapath/datapath.c
index 4a4d3a2..365aa25 100644
......@@ -100,3 +109,26 @@ index 4a4d3a2..365aa25 100644
+#endif
: genlmsg_multicast(skb, 0, dp_mc_group(dp), GFP_ATOMIC));
}
[2] Linux kernel 2.6.33/2.6.33.1 tun driver patch
The tun driver in Linux 2.6.33/2.6.33.1 doesn't work correctly in a network
namespace. As a result, running the user datapath in a network namespace
(e.g. as is done in examples/scratchnetuser.py) will cause a kernel panic
when sysfs cannot create an entry for a tap interface, since the tun network
device has a missing parent kobj. As a workaround, the following patch
skips creating the sysfs entries when this is the case. This is an acceptable
workaround as long as sysfs entries for tap interfaces are not being actively
used (and they are not currently in Mininet.)
diff linux-2.6.33.1/drivers/net/tun-orig.c linux-2.6.33.1/drivers/net/tun.c
1009c1009,1011
< if (device_create_file(&tun->dev->dev, &dev_attr_tun_flags) ||
---
> /* BL workaround: check for null parent kobj */
> if (!tun->dev->dev.kobj.sd ||
> device_create_file(&tun->dev->dev, &dev_attr_tun_flags) ||
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