[PATCH v9] seedrng: import SeedRNG utility for kernel RNG seed files

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Fri Apr 29 16:16:41 UTC 2022


On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 6:55 PM Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason at zx2c4.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 06:15:50PM +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> > Can we replace all [s]size_t's with ints/unsigneds? We do not expect
> > random pools anywhere near 4 gigabytes...
>
> Probably that's fine. Is the advantage to tossing out consistent types
> worth it though? Does this actually save space? Since [s]size_t is
> usually the word size, won't codegen not really change much?

For example, on x86-64, 32-bit insns are often shorter.


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