netdev - Re: [PATCH] bnx2x: fix occasional statistics off-by-4GB error

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Date:	Sun, 17 Mar 2013 14:24:25 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dmitry@...adcom.com
Cc:	zenczykowski@...il.com, maze@...gle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	yuvalmin@...adcom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bnx2x: fix occasional statistics off-by-4GB error

From: "Dmitry Kravkov" <dmitry@...adcom.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 13:10:37 +0000

> Probably this commit resolved the issue:
> 
> commit bef05406ac0ea6f468e1e25e9934f3011ea9259b
> Author: Dmitry Kravkov <dmitry@...adcom.com>
> Date:   Tue Sep 11 04:34:08 2012 +0000
> 
>     bnx2x: Avoid sending multiple statistics queries
> 
> Can you try it pls?

These are completely seperate bugs.

The macro in question does not handle rollover of the lower 32-bits of
the statistic properly at all, and therefore Maciej's patch should be
applied and queud up for -stable.

Please give it your ACK unless you can find a bug in his change.
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