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From: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid•com>
To: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox•net>, davem@davemloft•net
Cc: hannes@stressinduktion•org, netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 4/5] random32: add prandom_init_once helper for own rngs
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 09:32:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56154918.5070802@plumgrid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b96539c3efda908e3a347ff15de5eaf894548a5c.1444224502.git.daniel@iogearbox.net>

On 10/7/15 6:43 AM, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> +void prandom_init_state_once(void *pcpu_state);
> +
> +#define prandom_init_once(pcpu_state)				\
> +	({ do_once(prandom_init_state_once, (pcpu_state)); })
>
>   /**
>    * prandom_u32_max - returns a pseudo-random number in interval [0, ep_ro)
> diff --git a/lib/random32.c b/lib/random32.c
> index 36c09fb..b166237 100644
> --- a/lib/random32.c
> +++ b/lib/random32.c
> @@ -256,6 +256,11 @@ static void prandom_seed_full_state(struct rnd_state __percpu *pcpu_state)
>   	}
>   }
>
> +void prandom_init_state_once(void *pcpu_state)
> +{
> +	prandom_seed_full_state((struct rnd_state __percpu *)pcpu_state);
> +}
> +

prandom_seed_full_state() is likely not inlined in the above.
Why introduce this helper instead of making prandom_seed_full_state() 
global? with my other suggestion the void cast will be avoided as well
and compiler will do type checking.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-07 16:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-07 13:43 [PATCH net-next 0/5] BPF/random32 updates Daniel Borkmann
2015-10-07 13:43 ` [PATCH net-next 1/5] net: move net_get_random_once to lib Daniel Borkmann
2015-10-07 13:43 ` [PATCH net-next 2/5] once: make helper generic for calling function once Daniel Borkmann
2015-10-07 16:16   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-10-07 21:00     ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-10-07 13:43 ` [PATCH net-next 3/5] random32: add prandom_seed_full_state helper Daniel Borkmann
2015-10-07 13:43 ` [PATCH net-next 4/5] random32: add prandom_init_once helper for own rngs Daniel Borkmann
2015-10-07 16:32   ` Alexei Starovoitov [this message]
2015-10-07 13:43 ` [PATCH net-next 5/5] bpf: split state from prandom_u32() and consolidate {c,e}BPF prngs Daniel Borkmann
2015-10-07 16:38   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-10-07 21:01     ` Daniel Borkmann

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