Article 6PF58 Linux 6.11 Lands Support For getrandom() In The vDSO

Linux 6.11 Lands Support For getrandom() In The vDSO

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Michael Larabel
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Going back two years has been the effort for adding getrandom() to the vDSO in order to enhance the performance. This work has yielded as much as 15x the performance in showing very fast while being secure user-space RNG needs. A few weeks back Linus Torvalds was unconvinced by adding getrandom() to the vDSO, but after going back through the patches he gave it another go. Today the work has managed to be mainlined for Linux 6.11...
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