Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 Jan 2022 16:44:22 +0100 | From | Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] random: remove batched entropy locking |
| |
On 2022-01-28 16:33:44 [+0100], Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> > > We don't need spinlocks to protect batched entropy -- all we need > is a little bit of care. This should fix up the following splat that > Jonathan received with a PROVE_LOCKING=y/PROVE_RAW_LOCK_NESTING=y > kernel:
NO. Could we please look at my RANDOM patches first? This affects PREEMPT_RT. There is no need to stuff this in and tag it stable.
I can repost my rebased patched if there no objection. This patch invokes extract_crng() with disabled interrupts so we didn't gain anything IMHO.
Sebastian
| |