cosmopolitan/libc/intrin/rand64.c

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│ Copyright 2020 Justine Alexandra Roberts Tunney                              │
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#include "libc/intrin/_getauxval.internal.h"
#include "libc/nexgen32e/rdtsc.h"
#include "libc/runtime/internal.h"
#include "libc/runtime/runtime.h"
#include "libc/str/str.h"
#include "libc/sysv/consts/auxv.h"
#include "libc/thread/thread.h"
#include "libc/thread/tls.h"

static struct {
  int thepid;
  uint128_t thepool;
  pthread_spinlock_t lock;
} g_rand64;

/**
 * Returns nondeterministic random data.
 *
 * This function is similar to lemur64() except that it doesn't produce
 * the same sequences of numbers each time your program is run. This is
 * the case even across forks and threads, whose sequences will differ.
 *
 * @see rdseed(), rdrand(), rand(), random(), rngset()
 * @note this function takes 5 cycles (30 if `__threaded`)
 * @note this function is not intended for cryptography
 * @note this function passes bigcrush and practrand
 * @asyncsignalsafe
 * @threadsafe
 * @vforksafe
 */
uint64_t _rand64(void) {
  void *p;
  uint128_t s;
  if (__threaded) pthread_spin_lock(&g_rand64.lock);
  if (__pid == g_rand64.thepid) {
    s = g_rand64.thepool;  // normal path
  } else {
    if (!g_rand64.thepid) {
      if (AT_RANDOM && (p = (void *)_getauxval(AT_RANDOM).value)) {
        // linux / freebsd kernel supplied entropy
        memcpy(&s, p, 16);
      } else {
        // otherwise initialize w/ cheap timestamp
        s = kStartTsc;
      }
    } else {
      // blend another timestamp on fork contention
      s = g_rand64.thepool ^ rdtsc();
    }
    // blend the pid on startup and fork contention
    s ^= __pid;
    g_rand64.thepid = __pid;
  }
  g_rand64.thepool = (s *= 15750249268501108917ull);  // lemur64
  pthread_spin_unlock(&g_rand64.lock);
  return s >> 64;
}