Le lundi 05 juillet 2010 à 11:14 +0200, Eric Dumazet a écrit :
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> After commit be1f3c2c027c (net: Enable 64-bit net device statistics on
> 32-bit architectures), we can now provide 64bit stats, even on 32bit
> arches.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
> ---

Please disregard this patch.

There is small possibility a reader might read a 64bit value while
another writer makes a change to it, changing high 32bit value.

A change in core network would be needed to make this 100% safe,
possibly using a seqlock to protect dev->stats64



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