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| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2013-10-23 16:28:39 -0400 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2013-10-23 16:49:34 -0400 |
| commit | c3fa32b9764dc45dcf8a2231b1c110abc4a63e0b (patch) | |
| tree | 6cf2896a77b65bec64284681e1c3851eb3263e09 /include/linux/timex.h | |
| parent | 34d92d5315b64a3e5292b7e9511c1bb617227fb6 (diff) | |
| parent | 320437af954cbe66478f1f5e8b34cb5a8d072191 (diff) | |
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Conflicts:
drivers/net/usb/qmi_wwan.c
include/net/dst.h
Trivial merge conflicts, both were overlapping changes.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/timex.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/timex.h | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/timex.h b/include/linux/timex.h index dd3edd7dfc94..9d3f1a5b6178 100644 --- a/include/linux/timex.h +++ b/include/linux/timex.h @@ -64,6 +64,20 @@ #include <asm/timex.h> +#ifndef random_get_entropy +/* + * The random_get_entropy() function is used by the /dev/random driver + * in order to extract entropy via the relative unpredictability of + * when an interrupt takes places versus a high speed, fine-grained + * timing source or cycle counter. Since it will be occurred on every + * single interrupt, it must have a very low cost/overhead. + * + * By default we use get_cycles() for this purpose, but individual + * architectures may override this in their asm/timex.h header file. + */ +#define random_get_entropy() get_cycles() +#endif + /* * SHIFT_PLL is used as a dampening factor to define how much we * adjust the frequency correction for a given offset in PLL mode. |