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Date:      Fri, 7 Jan 2011 09:52:42 -0500
From:      George Neville-Neil <gnn@freebsd.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        "Robert N. M. Watson" <rwatson@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bz@freebsd.org>, svn-src-stable-8@freebsd.org, Lawrence Stewart <lstewart@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r217018 - stable/8/sys/netinet
Message-ID:  <B623E107-6E8D-4210-97A3-BB9509EA3873@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <201101070804.46913.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <201101051852.p05IqUjK087769@svn.freebsd.org> <4D26A165.3070001@freebsd.org> <20110107091418.H14966@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net> <201101070804.46913.jhb@freebsd.org>

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On Jan 7, 2011, at 08:04 , John Baldwin wrote:

> On Friday, January 07, 2011 4:36:38 am Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
>> On Fri, 7 Jan 2011, Lawrence Stewart wrote:
>>=20
>>> Hi George,
>>>=20
>>> On 01/06/11 05:52, George V. Neville-Neil wrote:
>>>> Author: gnn
>>>> Date: Wed Jan  5 18:52:30 2011
>>>> New Revision: 217018
>>>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/217018
>>>>=20
>>>> Log:
>>>>  Fix binary compatability for netstats across the -x/-T changes
>>>>  that have been previously MFC'd.
>>>>=20
>>>>  Reviewed by:	rwatson, bz
>>>>=20
>>>> Modified:
>>>>  stable/8/sys/netinet/tcp_var.h
>>>>=20
>> ...
>>>=20
>>> On my stable/8 machine after updating world but not kernel I see =
"struct
>>> xtcpcb size mismatch" messages which indicates the ABI has been =
futzed=20
> with.
>>=20
>> Be sure that it's not local changes.
>>=20
>>> Looking at the above diff I think this commit does indeed change the =
ABI
>>> and therefore needs to be tweaked in order to maintain our current =
ABI
>>> preservation policy for stable branches (unless I'm missing =
something?).
>>> If the change to the ABI is intentional, a note in UPDATING would
>>> probably be warranted.
>>=20
>> I think you are missing that that was the "repair" commit.  Are you
>> sure you didn't pickup the wrong versions?  There was about a 1 day
>> timeframe, where things were hosed but I believe George fixed them
>> all.
>>=20
>> Hmm looking at the diff committed more closely I see that the two
>> uint64_t are not were they should be.  Are you by any chance on i386
>> or another 32bit platform?
>>=20
>> 	uint64_t	t_sndrexmitpack;/* retransmit packets sent */
>> 	uint64_t	t_rcvoopack;	/* out-of-order packets received =
*/
>> should move  after t_pspare2[6] and the patch I had seen had that.
>>=20
>> Maybe we should even move them after _pad[] to keep the spares
>> together.
>>=20
>> Can you test this one?
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~bz/20110107-01-restore-xtcpcb-ABI.diff
>=20
> I think something like this is appropriate even regardless as it is =
cleaner to=20
> use the pad[] spots where they were originally.

Yeah, that patch is the right way to go.

Best,
George




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