linux-kernel - Re: mmotm 2008-12-01-19-41: early exception (page fault -- deref of 0x20)

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Date:	Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:50:36 -0800
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	tytso@....edu
Subject: Re: mmotm 2008-12-01-19-41: early exception (page fault -- deref
 of 0x20)

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 ;-(
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