xref: /freebsd/sys/libkern/random.c (revision 63a938566d524836885917d95bd491aa4400b181)
1 /*-
2  * SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
3  *
4  * Copyright (c) 1992, 1993
5  *	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
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19  * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
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30  *
31  *	@(#)random.c	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/10/93
32  */
33 
34 #include <sys/cdefs.h>
35 __FBSDID("$FreeBSD$");
36 
37 #include <sys/libkern.h>
38 
39 #define NSHUFF 50       /* to drop some "seed -> 1st value" linearity */
40 
41 static u_long randseed = 937186357; /* after srandom(1), NSHUFF counted */
42 
43 void
44 srandom(u_long seed)
45 {
46 	int i;
47 
48 	randseed = seed;
49 	for (i = 0; i < NSHUFF; i++)
50 		(void)random();
51 }
52 
53 /*
54  * Pseudo-random number generator for perturbing the profiling clock,
55  * and whatever else we might use it for.  The result is uniform on
56  * [0, 2^31 - 1].
57  */
58 u_long
59 random()
60 {
61 	long x, hi, lo, t;
62 
63 	/*
64 	 * Compute x[n + 1] = (7^5 * x[n]) mod (2^31 - 1).
65 	 * From "Random number generators: good ones are hard to find",
66 	 * Park and Miller, Communications of the ACM, vol. 31, no. 10,
67 	 * October 1988, p. 1195.
68 	 */
69 	/* Can't be initialized with 0, so use another value. */
70 	if ((x = randseed) == 0)
71 		x = 123459876;
72 	hi = x / 127773;
73 	lo = x % 127773;
74 	t = 16807 * lo - 2836 * hi;
75 	if (t < 0)
76 		t += 0x7fffffff;
77 	randseed = t;
78 	return (t);
79 }
80