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| author | Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> | 2014-01-22 02:29:39 +0100 |
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| committer | Moyster <oysterized@gmail.com> | 2016-09-10 12:06:47 +0200 |
| commit | 9ccd037fa0c77d680e1306dfdd0d6bfddf8b05a2 (patch) | |
| tree | 6cf907b9fcd73d462fe8a668ac8b9e403b0e2bda /drivers/char | |
| parent | f1c5c20a660ab23727deaee530bacf3e2dc9a921 (diff) | |
random32: add prandom_u32_max and convert open coded users
Many functions have open coded a function that returns a random
number in range [0,N-1]. Under the assumption that we have a PRNG
such as taus113 with being well distributed in [0, ~0U] space,
we can implement such a function as uword t = (n*m')>>32, where
m' is a random number obtained from PRNG, n the right open interval
border and t our resulting random number, with n,m',t in u32 universe.
Lets go with Joe and simply call it prandom_u32_max(), although
technically we have an right open interval endpoint, but that we
have documented. Other users can further be migrated to the new
prandom_u32_max() function later on; for now, we need to make sure
to migrate reciprocal_divide() users for the reciprocal_divide()
follow-up fixup since their function signatures are going to change.
Joint work with Hannes Frederic Sowa.
Cc: Jakub Zawadzki <darkjames-ws@darkjames.pl>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Conflicts:
net/packet/af_packet.c
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