From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 04:32:36 +0000 Subject: Re: [mpm@selenic.com: Re: buggy ia64_fls() ? (was Re: /dev/random problem on 2.6.12-rc1)] Message-Id: <16983.23268.453958.833658@napali.hpl.hp.com> List-Id: References: <20050408103324.6c5231df.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20050408103324.6c5231df.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 17:28:27 -0700, Matt Mackall said: Matt> Looks good. Can you verify that Matt> /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail has sane values in it Matt> (eg building up to ~3500 and then slowly approaching 4096)? Matt> random.c now uses fls and fls(0) was causing all the entropy Matt> to vanish. This appears to be the case. The highest value I saw was 3732 so I can't guarantee that it would make it all the way to 4096, but at least the tendency seems to be right. --david