[PATCH 2/2] Add single-threaded fast path to rand()

[Cristian Rodríguez]

On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 4:47 PM Mathieu Desnoyers
<mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> wrote:
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> On 2024-03-22 14:05, Adhemerval Zanella Netto wrote:
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> > On 22/03/24 12:30, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> >> On Fri, Mar 22, 2024, at 10:46 AM, Adhemerval Zanella Netto wrote:
> >>> On 22/03/24 11:27, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> >>>> On Thu, Mar 21, 2024, at 11:53 AM, Adhemerval Zanella Netto wrote:

> If the goal is to let userspace know that it needs to reseed due to
> various kernel events happening,

Yes, this is the missing information.. "some event happened that the
kernel knows about
we need to drop the state and start over" being fork, suspend, resume,
whatever future unknown event the kernel might consider.