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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Klei rama <kleirama90@gmail.com>
Cc: users@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-users] Error while building DPDK version 19.11 over latest kernel version
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2020 09:15:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6714101.kxl4BfHphI@thomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEicDxF76qPc3ze9tTdWEdDgkMtcYobuq8bj5q9Voyh9+XPa+g@mail.gmail.com>

01/10/2020 19:04, Klei rama:
> Hei,
> 
> I am trying to build DPDK version 19.11 in my ubuntu machine (18.04) with
> the latest kernel version 5.9. It gives me an error while I try to build
> it. The error is when I try to build linux/kni module.
> The error looks something like this:
> 
> *dpdk/kernel/linux/kni/kni_dev.h:104:30:* *error: *passing argument 1 of ‘
> *get_user_pages_remote*’ from incompatible pointer type [
> *-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types*]
> 
> 
> Is there any workaround?

Yes, it will be fixed with the backport of this patch:
http://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/commit/?id=87efaea6376c8

> Do I need to disable that module or should I
> downgrade the kernel version? I wanted to debug my application and see if
> it needs kni module but I did not not how to disable kni module. I tried
> common_base and common_linux under config directory but could not find the
> line which disable this module.

You can disable KNI in the config file:
	CONFIG_RTE_KNI_KMOD=n




  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-02  7:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-01 17:04 Klei rama
2020-10-02  7:15 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2020-10-02  7:16 ` David Marchand

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