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.
Jason A. Donenfeld
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Now that we have get_random_u32_below(), it's nearly trivial to make inline helpers to compute get_random_u32_above() and get_random_u32_inclusive(), which will help clean up open coded loops and manual computations throughout the tree. One snag is that in order to make get_random_u32_inclusive() operate on closed intervals, we have to do some (unlikely) special case handling if get_random_u32_inclusive(0, U32_MAX) is called. The least expensive way of doing this is actually to adjust the slowpath of get_random_u32_below() to have its undefined 0 result just return the output of get_random_u32(). We can make this basically free by calling get_random_u32() before the branch, so that the branch latency gets interleaved. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # to ease future backports that use this api Reviewed-by:Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by:
Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>