linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/9] random: simplify accounting logic

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Message-ID: <20131130010400.GF3778@thunk.org>
Date:	Fri, 29 Nov 2013 20:04:00 -0500
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Greg Price <price@....EDU>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/9] random: simplify accounting logic

On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 03:08:21AM -0500, Greg Price wrote:
> This logic is exactly equivalent to the old logic, but it should
> be easier to see what it's doing.
> 
> The equivalence depends on one fact from outside this function:
> when 'r->limit' is false, 'reserved' is zero.  (Well, two facts;
> the other is that 'reserved' is never negative.)

Applied, thanks.

					- Ted
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