[dm-devel] [Bcache v13 05/16] Export get_random_int()

Kent Overstreet koverstreet at google.com
Thu May 10 03:09:13 UTC 2012


This is needed for bcache - it needs a fast source of random numbers for
the throttling code in order to fuzz IO sizes, but the random numbers
don't need to be any good (and it immediately converts it to a
binomially distributed random number with popcount anyways).

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet at google.com>
---
 drivers/char/random.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c
index 54ca8b2..ec4dd79 100644
--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -1357,6 +1357,7 @@ unsigned int get_random_int(void)
 
 	return ret;
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_random_int);
 
 /*
  * randomize_range() returns a start address such that
-- 
1.7.9.rc2




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