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-rw-r--r--Kernel/Syscall.cpp19
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Kernel/Syscall.cpp b/Kernel/Syscall.cpp
index 14f85b4c39..fa7d5a23a1 100644
--- a/Kernel/Syscall.cpp
+++ b/Kernel/Syscall.cpp
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
/*
- * Copyright (c) 2018-2020, Andreas Kling <kling@serenityos.org>
+ * Copyright (c) 2018-2021, Andreas Kling <kling@serenityos.org>
* All rights reserved.
*
* Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@
#include <Kernel/Arch/i386/CPU.h>
#include <Kernel/Panic.h>
#include <Kernel/Process.h>
-#include <Kernel/Random.h>
#include <Kernel/ThreadTracer.h>
#include <Kernel/VM/MemoryManager.h>
@@ -137,10 +136,6 @@ KResultOr<FlatPtr> handle(RegisterState& regs, FlatPtr function, FlatPtr arg1, F
}
-constexpr int RandomByteBufferSize = 256;
-u8 g_random_byte_buffer[RandomByteBufferSize];
-int g_random_byte_buffer_offset = RandomByteBufferSize;
-
void syscall_handler(TrapFrame* trap)
{
auto& regs = *trap->regs;
@@ -160,13 +155,11 @@ void syscall_handler(TrapFrame* trap)
// Apply a random offset in the range 0-255 to the stack pointer,
// to make kernel stacks a bit less deterministic.
- // Since this is very hot code, request random data in chunks instead of
- // one byte at a time. This is a noticeable speedup.
- if (g_random_byte_buffer_offset == RandomByteBufferSize) {
- get_fast_random_bytes(g_random_byte_buffer, RandomByteBufferSize);
- g_random_byte_buffer_offset = 0;
- }
- auto* ptr = (char*)__builtin_alloca(g_random_byte_buffer[g_random_byte_buffer_offset++]);
+ u32 lsw;
+ u32 msw;
+ read_tsc(lsw, msw);
+
+ auto* ptr = (char*)__builtin_alloca(lsw & 0xff);
asm volatile(""
: "=m"(*ptr));