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authorDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>2014-03-18 09:43:56 +0100
committerDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>2014-03-18 09:43:56 +0100
commite19b9137142988bec5a76c5f8bdf12a77ea802b0 (patch)
treeb36c83fa93da7f18c1331252fb82a87431697443 /include/linux/random.h
parent2fae6a860ca9adb0c881f6dcd633df775c2520e9 (diff)
parente40d641099213145a034981e646dc2180a488152 (diff)
Merge remote-tracking branch 'airlied/drm-next' into drm-intel-next
Conflicts: drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Makefile Makefile cleanup in drm-intel-next conflicts with a build-fix to move intel_opregion under CONFIG_ACPI. Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/random.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/random.h18
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/random.h b/include/linux/random.h
index 4002b3df4c85..1cfce0e24dbd 100644
--- a/include/linux/random.h
+++ b/include/linux/random.h
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
#include <uapi/linux/random.h>
-
extern void add_device_randomness(const void *, unsigned int);
extern void add_input_randomness(unsigned int type, unsigned int code,
unsigned int value);
@@ -38,6 +37,23 @@ struct rnd_state {
u32 prandom_u32_state(struct rnd_state *state);
void prandom_bytes_state(struct rnd_state *state, void *buf, int nbytes);
+/**
+ * prandom_u32_max - returns a pseudo-random number in interval [0, ep_ro)
+ * @ep_ro: right open interval endpoint
+ *
+ * Returns a pseudo-random number that is in interval [0, ep_ro). Note
+ * that the result depends on PRNG being well distributed in [0, ~0U]
+ * u32 space. Here we use maximally equidistributed combined Tausworthe
+ * generator, that is, prandom_u32(). This is useful when requesting a
+ * random index of an array containing ep_ro elements, for example.
+ *
+ * Returns: pseudo-random number in interval [0, ep_ro)
+ */
+static inline u32 prandom_u32_max(u32 ep_ro)
+{
+ return (u32)(((u64) prandom_u32() * ep_ro) >> 32);
+}
+
/*
* Handle minimum values for seeds
*/