From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [103.22.144.67]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ADH-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3tVTlb71zdzDw2X for ; Fri, 2 Dec 2016 20:44:59 +1100 (AEDT) From: Michael Ellerman To: Paul Mackerras , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] powerpc/64: Fix checksum folding in csum_tcpudp_nofold and ip_fast_csum_nofold In-Reply-To: <20161103051055.GA8368@fergus.ozlabs.ibm.com> References: <20161103051055.GA8368@fergus.ozlabs.ibm.com> Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2016 20:44:58 +1100 Message-ID: <87y3zyy89x.fsf@concordia.ellerman.id.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Paul Mackerras writes: > These functions compute an IP checksum by computing a 64-bit sum and > folding it to 32 bits (the "nofold" in their names refers to folding > down to 16 bits). However, doing (u32) (s + (s >> 32)) is not > sufficient to fold a 64-bit sum to 32 bits correctly. The addition > can produce a carry out from bit 31, which needs to be added in to > the sum to produce the correct result. > > To fix this, we copy the from64to32() function from lib/checksum.c > and use that. This collided with: f9d4286b9516 ("arch/powerpc: Update parameters for csum_tcpudp_magic & csum_tcpudp_nofold") Mind rebasing? cheers