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From:   Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Date:   Tue, 1 Dec 2020 09:41:01 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] kcsan: Rewrite kcsan_prandom_u32_max() without prandom_u32_state()
To:     "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc:     Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
        Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
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Hi Paul,

On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 at 12:02, Marco Elver <elver@google.com> wrote:
> Rewrite kcsan_prandom_u32_max() to not depend on code that might be
> instrumented, removing any dependency on lib/random32.c. The rewrite
> implements a simple linear congruential generator, that is sufficient
> for our purposes (for udelay() and skip_watch counter randomness).
>
[...]

It's been about 7 days -- feel free to pick up this series (unless
there are new comments).

Thanks,
-- Marco