Re: [PATCH -v2 03/26] x86: pageattr-test: remove srandom32 call

From: Akinobu Mita
Date: Fri Jan 04 2013 - 08:54:01 EST


2013/1/4 H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On 01/03/2013 04:18 AM, Akinobu Mita wrote:
>>
>> pageattr-test calls srandom32() once every test iteration.
>> But calling srandom32() after late_initcalls is not meaningfull.
>> Because the random states for random32() is mixed by good random numbers
>> in late_initcall prandom_reseed().
>>
>> So this removes the call to srandom32().
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: x86@xxxxxxxxxx
>> ---
>>
>> No change from v1
>>
>
> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> ... for this and the other patch. Do you need me to pick it up or are you
> pushing this directly as part of your bigger patchset?

Please pick up the patches for x86.
Thanks for taking care of it.
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