On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 04:52:59PM -0700, Victoria Milhoan wrote: > From: Steve Cornelius <steve.cornel...@freescale.com> > > The hwrng output buffers (2) are cast inside of a a struct (caam_rng_ctx) > allocated in one DMA-tagged region. While the kernel's heap allocator > should place the overall struct on a cacheline aligned boundary, the 2 > buffers contained within may not necessarily align. Consenquently, the ends > of unaligned buffers may not fully flush, and if so, stale data will be left > behind, resulting in small repeating patterns.
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