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From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [mpm@selenic.com: Re: buggy ia64_fls() ? (was Re: /dev/random problem on 2.6.12-rc1)]
Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 00:28:27 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050409002827.GI3174@waste.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050408103324.6c5231df.akpm@osdl.org>

On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 05:21:06PM -0700, David Mosberger wrote:
> Here is a first cut for the patch.  It compiles with gcc 3.3 and 3.4
> and boots on Ski.  Assuming nobody finds any issues, I'll make a final
> patch tonight.

Looks good. Can you verify that /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail
has sane values in it (eg building up to ~3500 and then slowly
approaching 4096)? random.c now uses fls and fls(0) was causing all
the entropy to vanish.

-- 
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-04-09  0:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-08 17:33 [mpm@selenic.com: Re: buggy ia64_fls() ? (was Re: /dev/random Andrew Morton
2005-04-08 17:48 ` [mpm@selenic.com: Re: buggy ia64_fls() ? (was Re: /dev/random problem on 2.6.12-rc1)] Matt Mackall
2005-04-08 18:02 ` [mpm@selenic.com: Re: buggy ia64_fls() ? (was Re: /dev/random Andrew Morton
2005-04-08 19:05 ` David Mosberger
2005-04-08 20:46 ` [mpm@selenic.com: Re: buggy ia64_fls() ? (was Re: /dev/random problem on 2.6.12-rc1)] David Mosberger
2005-04-08 22:49 ` Matt Mackall
2005-04-08 23:01 ` David Mosberger
2005-04-08 23:02 ` Luck, Tony
2005-04-08 23:15 ` Matt Mackall
2005-04-08 23:17 ` Matt Mackall
2005-04-08 23:19 ` David Mosberger
2005-04-08 23:49 ` David Mosberger
2005-04-09  0:21 ` [mpm@selenic.com: Re: buggy ia64_fls() ? (was Re: /dev/random David Mosberger
2005-04-09  0:28 ` Matt Mackall [this message]
2005-04-09  0:34 ` Arthur Kepner
2005-04-09  0:46 ` [mpm@selenic.com: Re: buggy ia64_fls() ? (was Re: /dev/random problem on 2.6.12-rc1)] Grant Grundler
2005-04-09  3:00 ` Grant Grundler
2005-04-09  4:05 ` David Mosberger
2005-04-09  4:32 ` David Mosberger
2005-04-09  5:09 ` [mpm@selenic.com: Re: buggy ia64_fls() ? (was Re: /dev/random David Mosberger
2005-04-09  5:16 ` [mpm@selenic.com: Re: buggy ia64_fls() ? (was Re: /dev/random problem on 2.6.12-rc1)] Grant Grundler
2005-04-09  6:00 ` David Mosberger
2005-04-22  3:50 ` [mpm@selenic.com: Re: buggy ia64_fls() ? (was Re: /dev/random Andrew Morton

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