Re: [PATCH 1/4] Routine for generating an safe ID for kernel pointer

[Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>]

>> +unsigned long gen_object_id(void *ptr)
>> +{
>> +       if (!ptr)
>> +               return 0;
>> +
>> +       if (unlikely(!ptr_poison)) {
>> +               spin_lock(&ptr_poison_lock);
>> +               if (!ptr_poison)
>> +                       get_random_bytes(&ptr_poison, sizeof(ptr_poison));
>> +               spin_unlock(&ptr_poison_lock);
>> +       }
>> +
>> +       return ((unsigned long)ptr) ^ ptr_poison;
>> +}
> 
> You could put this in mm/util.c. Wouldn't it make sense to separate
> the initialization and use late_initcall() to call it?

OK, will put to util.c

About the initialization - I will put the sanity check about poison being not 0 on
get_object_id() anyway, so what's the point in separate initialization?

>                         Pekka
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