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From: Mika Liljeberg <Mika.Liljeberg@welho.com>
To: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
Cc: Mika.Liljeberg@nokia.com, davem@redhat.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sarolaht@cs.helsinki.fi,
	rmk@arm.linux.ORG.UK
Subject: Re: ARM: Re: TCP LAST-ACK state broken in 2.4.17-pre2 [NEW DATA]
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 22:52:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C1FAC8F.699E1287@welho.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200112182029.XAA11287@ms2.inr.ac.ru>

kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru wrote:

> > It's ARM in little endian mode.
> 
> I think it is answer to the question.
> 
> No doubts it still has broken misaligned access.

Oops, I think there was a misunderstanding. The linux machine is Intel.
The other one is a non-Linux ARM.

> > Now that you mention it, tcp_parse_options() in input.c seems to expect
> > that the timestamps are word aligned,
> 
> Nope. It does not expect any alignment, but it is really supposed
> to penalise misbehaving cases.

Ahh, I see. There's a kernel exception handler that is supposed to fix
misaligned access? Hacky.

Cheers,

	MikaL

  reply	other threads:[~2001-12-18 20:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-18  9:33 TCP LAST-ACK state broken in 2.4.17-pre2 [NEW DATA] Mika.Liljeberg
2001-12-18 18:37 ` kuznet
2001-12-18 20:21   ` Mika Liljeberg
2001-12-18 20:28     ` David S. Miller
2001-12-18 20:29     ` ARM: " kuznet
2001-12-18 20:52       ` Mika Liljeberg [this message]
2001-12-18 21:08         ` David S. Miller
2001-12-18 21:03       ` Russell King
2001-12-18 21:11         ` David S. Miller
2001-12-18 21:14           ` Russell King
2001-12-18 21:15             ` David S. Miller
2001-12-18 21:27               ` Mika Liljeberg
2001-12-18 21:24           ` Rik van Riel
2001-12-18 21:28             ` Russell King
2001-12-18 21:33             ` David S. Miller
2001-12-20  7:31     ` Stevie O
2001-12-20  7:40       ` David S. Miller
2001-12-20  7:51       ` Stevie O
2001-12-20  8:58         ` Russell King
2001-12-20  9:01       ` Russell King
2001-12-20 10:22       ` David Weinehall
2002-01-02 19:52         ` Mike Touloumtzis
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-12-19  9:10 ARM: " Mika.Liljeberg

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