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From: Greg Price <price@MIT.EDU>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Subject: [PATCH 00/11] random: code cleanups
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 18:57:25 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cover.1383868558.git.price@mit.edu> (raw)

Hi Ted, hi all,

I recently read through the random number generator's code.
This series has fixes for some minor things I spotted.

Four of the patches touch comments only.  Four simplify code without
changing its behavior (total diffstat: 35 insertions, 73 deletions),
and one is a trivial signedness fix.  Two patches change the locking
and lockless concurrency control in account(), including one bugfix.
The bug is related to the one Jiri found and fixed in May.

Cheers,
Greg


Greg Price (11):
  random: fix typos / spelling errors in comments
  random: fix comment on proc_do_uuid
  random: fix description of get_random_bytes
  random: simplify loop in random_read
  random: declare trickle_count unsigned
  random: fix comment on "account"
  random: simplify accounting code slightly
  random: simplify accounting logic
  random: forget lock in lockless accounting
  random: pull 'min' check in accounting to inside lockless update
  random: simplify accounting code

 drivers/char/random.c | 164 ++++++++++++++++++++------------------------------
 1 file changed, 66 insertions(+), 98 deletions(-)

-- 
1.8.3.2

             reply	other threads:[~2013-11-08  0:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-07 23:57 Greg Price [this message]
2013-11-07 23:57 ` [PATCH 01/11] random: fix typos / spelling errors in comments Greg Price
2013-11-07 23:58 ` [PATCH 02/11] random: fix comment on proc_do_uuid Greg Price
2013-11-07 23:58 ` [PATCH 03/11] random: fix description of get_random_bytes Greg Price
2013-11-07 23:58 ` [PATCH 04/11] random: simplify loop in random_read Greg Price
2013-11-07 23:58 ` [PATCH 05/11] random: declare trickle_count unsigned Greg Price
2013-11-07 23:58 ` [PATCH 06/11] random: fix comment on "account" Greg Price
2013-11-07 23:58 ` [PATCH 07/11] random: simplify accounting code slightly Greg Price
2013-11-07 23:59 ` [PATCH 08/11] random: simplify accounting logic Greg Price
2013-11-07 23:59 ` [PATCH 09/11] random: forget lock in lockless accounting Greg Price
2013-11-07 23:59 ` [PATCH 10/11] random: pull 'min' check in accounting to inside lockless update Greg Price
2013-11-07 23:59 ` [PATCH 11/11] random: simplify accounting code Greg Price
2013-11-12  4:24 ` [PATCH 00/11] random: code cleanups Theodore Ts'o
2013-11-12 22:40   ` Greg Price
2013-11-13  3:32     ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-11-13  4:02       ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-13  4:37         ` Greg Price
2013-11-13  4:51           ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-13  6:06             ` Greg Price
2013-11-13  4:23       ` Greg Price
2013-11-13  6:08         ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-11-13  6:28           ` Greg Price

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