Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 03 Jan 2013 09:35:35 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH -v2 03/26] x86: pageattr-test: remove srandom32 call |
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On 01/03/2013 04:18 AM, Akinobu Mita wrote: > pageattr-test calls srandom32() once every test iteration. > But calling srandom32() after late_initcalls is not meaningfull. > Because the random states for random32() is mixed by good random numbers > in late_initcall prandom_reseed(). > > So this removes the call to srandom32(). > > Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> > Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> > Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> > Cc: x86@kernel.org > --- > > No change from v1 >
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
... for this and the other patch. Do you need me to pick it up or are you pushing this directly as part of your bigger patchset?
-- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
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