On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Stephan Mueller <smuel...@chronox.de> wrote: > __u64 tmp = random_get_fast_cycles() - random_get_fast_cycles(); > if(0 == tmp) > return fail; > return pass;
That will fail if the cycle counter runs at less than say 4 times the CPU clock... BTW, I prefer a different name than "random_get_fast_cycles()", as it's better to have something that returns different and unpredictable numbers than an actual monotonic cycle counter. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- ge...@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- 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/