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authorHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>2009-01-06 14:39:57 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-01-06 15:59:06 -0800
commitf0d7a4b3ed46816f5097d521850a8ab7a0d40f3c (patch)
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swapfile: let others seed random
Remove the srandom32((u32)get_seconds()) from non-rotational swapon: there's been a coincidental discussion of earlier randomization, assume that goes ahead, let swapon be a client rather than stirring for itself. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Donjun Shin <djshin90@gmail.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Tejun Heo <teheo@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index 6a078557306a..d00523601913 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -1851,7 +1851,6 @@ asmlinkage long sys_swapon(const char __user * specialfile, int swap_flags)
if (blk_queue_nonrot(bdev_get_queue(p->bdev))) {
p->flags |= SWP_SOLIDSTATE;
- srandom32((u32)get_seconds());
p->cluster_next = 1 + (random32() % p->highest_bit);
}
if (discard_swap(p) == 0)