netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/5] vxge: fix 64 bit access on 32 bit platforms

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Message-Id: <20110621.155603.512721164385831874.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:56:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shemminger@...tta.com
Cc:	jdmason@...zu.us, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/5] vxge: fix 64 bit access on 32 bit
 platforms

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:35:07 -0700

> Need to add stat_sync wrapper around 64 bit statistic values.
> Fix wraparound bug in lockup detector where it is unsafely comparing
> 64 bit value that is not atomic. Since only care about detecting activity
> just looking at current low order bits will work.
> 
> Remove unused entries in old vxge_sw_stats structure.
> Change the error counters to unsigned long since they won't grow so large
> as to have to be 64 bits.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>

Applied.
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