Re: [PATCH] /dev/random: Insufficient of entropy on many architectures

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 09/10/2013 05:50 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> 
> Right now, if get_cycles() returns 0, we fall back to only mixing in
> the IP register from the interrupt plus the jiffies counter.  The
> platforms where get_cycles returns 0 is:
> 
> - User mode Linux

UML (on x86) should be able to use RDTSC just fine; it might be
meaningless for anything *other* than random though...

	-hpa


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