From f337db64af059c9a94278a8b0ab97d87259ff62f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Borkmann Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 02:29:39 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] random32: add prandom_u32_max and convert open coded users Many functions have open coded a function that returns a random number in range [0,N-1]. Under the assumption that we have a PRNG such as taus113 with being well distributed in [0, ~0U] space, we can implement such a function as uword t = (n*m')>>32, where m' is a random number obtained from PRNG, n the right open interval border and t our resulting random number, with n,m',t in u32 universe. Lets go with Joe and simply call it prandom_u32_max(), although technically we have an right open interval endpoint, but that we have documented. Other users can further be migrated to the new prandom_u32_max() function later on; for now, we need to make sure to migrate reciprocal_divide() users for the reciprocal_divide() follow-up fixup since their function signatures are going to change. Joint work with Hannes Frederic Sowa. Cc: Jakub Zawadzki Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Reading git-format-patch failed