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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
To: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tytso@mit.edu
Subject: Re: mmotm 2008-12-01-19-41: early exception (page fault -- deref of 0x20)
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:50:36 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4935C9CC.8070308@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1228261328.3196.174.camel@calx>

Matt Mackall wrote:
> 
> If we oops or warn while picking a timesource, we'll have lots of fun?
> 

we really only need to mix in the tsc; ktime_get() is just an arch friendly way to get that
I supposed (wrongly).

but yes we need to do a few things
1) seed on demand with a platform time source
2) have a way where arch init can just hand semi random data during the boot process to
    increase the randomness (even if it doesn't count as entropy)
I got pulled in some big project at work so I might not get to it this week, but if nobody beats
me to it I will get to it ;-(

  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-02 23:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-02 23:09 mmotm 2008-12-01-19-41: early exception (page fault -- deref of 0x20) Jiri Slaby
2008-12-02 23:29 ` Matt Mackall
2008-12-02 23:33 ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-02 23:42   ` Matt Mackall
2008-12-02 23:50     ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2008-12-03 17:07       ` Matt Mackall
2008-12-03 17:14         ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-12-03 13:00   ` Jiri Kosina
2008-12-22 12:04     ` Jiri Slaby
2008-12-22 12:25       ` Jiri Kosina

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