From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758275AbaCRVxs (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Mar 2014 17:53:48 -0400 Received: from imap.thunk.org ([74.207.234.97]:43199 "EHLO imap.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756749AbaCRVxp (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Mar 2014 17:53:45 -0400 Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 17:52:57 -0400 From: tytso@mit.edu To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Paul Mackerras , Michael Ellerman , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] RDSEED support for the Linux kernel Message-ID: <20140318215257.GA19887@thunk.org> Mail-Followup-To: tytso@mit.edu, "H. Peter Anvin" , Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Paul Mackerras , Michael Ellerman , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <1395099390-807-1-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1395099390-807-1-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22 (2013-10-16) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: tytso@thunk.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on imap.thunk.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 04:36:26PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Changes since version 1: > > a. Rebased on top of random.git:dev. > b. Unbreak the PowerPC build (I had managed to miss that PowerPC had > grown archrandom.h support.) > c. Remove duplicate dummy function definitions in . > d. Add a fourth patch containing a microoptimization: avoid the loop > in arch_random_refill() if arch_get_random_seed*() is unavailable. > > Comments are, of course, appreciated. > > Ted, if you are OK with this could you add this to random.git:dev so > linux-next can pick it up? Thanks, applied to the random.git tree. - Ted