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The memory size consumed by the Jitter RNG is one contributing factor in the amount of entropy that is gathered. As the amount of entropy directly correlates with the distance of the memory from the CPU, the caches that are possibly present on a given system have an impact on the collected entropy. Thus, the kernel compile time should offer a means to configure the amount of memory used by the Jitter RNG. Although this option could be turned into a runtime option (e.g. a kernel command line option), it should remain a compile time option as otherwise adminsitrators who may not have performed an entropy assessment may select a value that is inappropriate. The default value selected by the configuration is identical to the current Jitter RNG value. Thus, the patch should not lead to any change in the Jitter RNG behavior. To accommodate larger memory buffers, kvzalloc / kvfree is used. Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.