Jason A. Donenfeld
c2a7de4feb
Taking spinlocks from IRQ context is generally problematic for PREEMPT_RT. That is, in part, why we take trylocks instead. However, a spin_try_lock() is also problematic since another spin_lock() invocation can potentially PI-boost the wrong task, as the spin_try_lock() is invoked from an IRQ-context, so the task on CPU (random task or idle) is not the actual owner. Additionally, by deferring the crng pre-init loading to the worker, we can use the cryptographic hash function rather than xor, which is perhaps a meaningful difference when considering this data has only been through the relatively weak fast_mix() function. The biggest downside of this approach is that the pre-init loading is now deferred until later, which means things that need random numbers after interrupts are enabled, but before workqueues are running -- or before this particular worker manages to run -- are going to get into trouble. Hopefully in the real world, this window is rather small, especially since this code won't run until 64 interrupts had occurred. Cc: Sultan Alsawaf <sultan@kerneltoast.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Acked-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Linux kernel
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Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
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requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.