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Theodore Ts'o committed ee3e00e9e71
random: use registers from interrupted code for CPU's w/o a cycle counter For CPU's that don't have a cycle counter, or something equivalent which can be used for random_get_entropy(), random_get_entropy() will always return 0. In that case, substitute with the saved interrupt registers to add a bit more unpredictability. Some folks have suggested hashing all of the registers unconditionally, but this would increase the overhead of add_interrupt_randomness() by at least an order of magnitude, and this would very likely be unacceptable. The changes in this commit have been benchmarked as mostly unaffecting the overhead of add_interrupt_randomness() if the entropy counter is present, and doubling the overhead if it is not present. Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Jörn Engel <joern@logfs.org>