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SubjectRe: [PATCH] hw_random: bcm2835: use hwrng_msleep() instead of cpu_relax()
On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 09:06:07AM -0600, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> Rather than busy looping, yield back to the scheduler and sleep for a
> bit in the event that there's no data. This should hopefully prevent the
> stalls that Mark reported:
>
> <6>[ 3.362859] Freeing initrd memory: 16196K
> <3>[ 23.160131] rcu: INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU
> <3>[ 23.166057] rcu: 0-....: (2099 ticks this GP) idle=03b4/1/0x40000002 softirq=28/28 fqs=1050
> <4>[ 23.174895] (t=2101 jiffies g=-1147 q=2353 ncpus=4)
> <4>[ 23.180203] CPU: 0 PID: 49 Comm: hwrng Not tainted 6.0.0 #1
> <4>[ 23.186125] Hardware name: BCM2835
> <4>[ 23.189837] PC is at bcm2835_rng_read+0x30/0x6c
> <4>[ 23.194709] LR is at hwrng_fillfn+0x71/0xf4
> <4>[ 23.199218] pc : [<c07ccdc8>] lr : [<c07cb841>] psr: 40000033
> <4>[ 23.205840] sp : f093df70 ip : 00000000 fp : 00000000
> <4>[ 23.211404] r10: c3c7e800 r9 : 00000000 r8 : c17e6b20
> <4>[ 23.216968] r7 : c17e6b64 r6 : c18b0a74 r5 : c07ccd99 r4 : c3f171c0
> <4>[ 23.223855] r3 : 000fffff r2 : 00000040 r1 : c3c7e800 r0 : c3f171c0
> <4>[ 23.230743] Flags: nZcv IRQs on FIQs on Mode SVC_32 ISA Thumb Segment none
> <4>[ 23.238426] Control: 50c5387d Table: 0020406a DAC: 00000051
> <4>[ 23.244519] CPU: 0 PID: 49 Comm: hwrng Not tainted 6.0.0 #1
>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Y0QJLauamRnCDUef@sirena.org.uk/
> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
> ---
> I haven't tested this. Somebody with access to that kernel CI infra that
> triggered this will need to test.
>
> drivers/char/hw_random/bcm2835-rng.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Patch applied. Thanks.
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