From: "H. Peter Anvin" <h...@linux.intel.com> When we write entropy into a non-empty pool, we currently don't account at all for the fact that we will probabilistically overwrite some of the entropy in that pool. This means that unless the pool is fully empty, we are currently *guaranteed* to overestimate the amount of entropy in the pool!
This version of the patchset avoids manually duplicating information by using a macro. This removes *all* dynamic computation of derived pool information and replaces them with static information: on just about every architecture accessing pointer+offset is no more expensive than just plain pointer, and this lets us get the information we actually need from the start. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
