Re: MIPS checksum bug

[Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>]

On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:52:45 -0700, Bryan Phillippe <u1@terran.org> wrote:
> I tested the simplified patch below (ADDC32), and it does not address  
> the checksum bug.  I suspect the problem is that we're still leaving  
> the carry bit in the upper 16 bits of the 32 bit csum returned, and  
> this is resulting in a computed checksum that is 1 greater than it  
> should be.  The upper 16 bits of the return value of this function  
> must be 0, right?

Thank you for testing.  Though this patch did not fixed your problem,
I still have a doubt on 64-bit optimization.

If your hardware could run 32-bit kernel, could you confirm the
problem can happens in 32-bit too or not?

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Atsushi Nemoto