xref: /freebsd/sys/libkern/random.c (revision cd0d51baaa4509a1db83251a601d34404d20c990)
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/types.h>
38 #include <sys/libkern.h>
39 #include <sys/systm.h>
40 
41 static u_long randseed = 937186357; /* after srandom(1), NSHUFF counted */
42 
43 /*
44  * Pseudo-random number generator for perturbing the profiling clock,
45  * and whatever else we might use it for.  The result is uniform on
46  * [0, 2^31 - 1].
47  */
48 u_long
49 random(void)
50 {
51 	static bool warned = false;
52 
53 	long x, hi, lo, t;
54 
55 	/* Warn only once, or it gets very spammy. */
56 	if (!warned) {
57 		gone_in(13,
58 		    "random(9) is the obsolete Park-Miller LCG from 1988");
59 		warned = true;
60 	}
61 
62 	/*
63 	 * Compute x[n + 1] = (7^5 * x[n]) mod (2^31 - 1).
64 	 * From "Random number generators: good ones are hard to find",
65 	 * Park and Miller, Communications of the ACM, vol. 31, no. 10,
66 	 * October 1988, p. 1195.
67 	 */
68 	/* Can't be initialized with 0, so use another value. */
69 	if ((x = randseed) == 0)
70 		x = 123459876;
71 	hi = x / 127773;
72 	lo = x % 127773;
73 	t = 16807 * lo - 2836 * hi;
74 	if (t < 0)
75 		t += 0x7fffffff;
76 	randseed = t;
77 	return (t);
78 }
79