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SubjectRe: [Y2038] [PATCH v2] crypto: Jitter RNG - use ktime_get_ns as fallback
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On Wednesday, June 22, 2016 7:26:06 PM CEST Stephan Mueller wrote:
> As part of the Y2038 development, __getnstimeofday is not supposed to be
> used any more. It is now replaced with ktime_get_ns. The Jitter RNG uses
> the time stamp to measure the execution time of a given code path and
> tries to detect variations in the execution time. Therefore, the only
> requirement the Jitter RNG has, is a sufficient high resolution to
> detect these variations.
>
> The change was tested on x86 to show an identical behavior as RDTSC. The
> used test code simply measures the execution time of the heart of the
> RNG:
>
> jent_get_nstime(&time);
> jent_memaccess(ec, min);
> jent_fold_time(NULL, time, &folded, min);
> jent_get_nstime(&time2);
> return ((time2 - time));
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
> ---
>

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

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