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Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 09:35:35 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> To: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com> CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, x86@...nel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2 03/26] x86: pageattr-test: remove srandom32 call 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@...il.com> > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> > Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com> > Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> > Cc: x86@...nel.org > --- > > No change from v1 > Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> ... 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? -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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