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Jason A. Donenfeld 9148de3196 random: reseed in delayed work rather than on-demand
Currently, we reseed when random bytes are requested, if the current
seed is too old. Since random bytes can be requested from all contexts,
including hard IRQ, this means sometimes we wind up adding a bit of
latency to hard IRQ. This was so much of a problem on s390x that now
s390x just doesn't provide its architectural RNG from hard IRQ context,
so we miss out in that case.

Instead, let's just schedule a persistent delayed work, so that the
reseeding and potentially expensive operations will always happen from
process context, reducing unexpected latencies from hard IRQ.

This also has the nice effect of accumulating a transcript of random
inputs over time, since it means that we amass more input values. And it
should make future vDSO integration a bit easier.

Cc: Harald Freudenberger <freude@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Juergen Christ <jchrist@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
History 2022-11-18 02:18:10 +01:00
arch random: remove early archrandom abstraction 2022-11-18 02:18:10 +01:00
block block-6.1-2022-11-11 2022-11-11 14:08:30 -08:00
certs certs: make system keyring depend on built-in x509 parser 2022-09-24 04:31:18 +09:00
crypto treewide: use get_random_u32_inclusive() when possible 2022-11-18 02:18:02 +01:00
Documentation random: use random.trust_{bootloader,cpu} command line option only 2022-11-18 02:18:10 +01:00
drivers random: reseed in delayed work rather than on-demand 2022-11-18 02:18:10 +01:00
fs treewide: use get_random_u32_inclusive() when possible 2022-11-18 02:18:02 +01:00
include random: always mix cycle counter in add_latent_entropy() 2022-11-18 02:18:10 +01:00
init init: Kconfig: fix spelling mistake "satify" -> "satisfy" 2022-10-20 21:27:22 -07:00
io_uring io_uring/poll: lockdep annote io_poll_req_insert_locked 2022-11-11 09:59:27 -07:00
ipc ipc/msg.c: fix percpu_counter use after free 2022-10-28 13:37:22 -07:00
kernel stackprotector: move get_random_canary() into stackprotector.h 2022-11-18 02:18:10 +01:00
lib treewide: use get_random_u32_inclusive() when possible 2022-11-18 02:18:02 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
mm treewide: use get_random_u32_inclusive() when possible 2022-11-18 02:18:02 +01:00
net treewide: use get_random_u32_inclusive() when possible 2022-11-18 02:18:02 +01:00
rust Kbuild: add Rust support 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
samples VFIO updates for v6.1-rc1 2022-10-12 14:46:48 -07:00
scripts s390 updates for 6.1-rc5 2022-11-11 11:49:20 -08:00
security lsm/stable-6.1 PR 20221031 2022-10-31 12:09:42 -07:00
sound ALSA: memalloc: Try dma_alloc_noncontiguous() at first 2022-11-12 09:48:51 +01:00
tools random: use random.trust_{bootloader,cpu} command line option only 2022-11-18 02:18:10 +01:00
usr usr/gen_init_cpio.c: remove unnecessary -1 values from int file 2022-10-03 14:21:44 -07:00
virt Merge tag 'kvmarm-fixes-6.1-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD 2022-11-06 03:30:49 -05:00
.clang-format PCI/DOE: Add DOE mailbox support functions 2022-07-19 15:38:04 -07:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore Kbuild: add Rust support 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
.mailmap mailmap: update email for Qais Yousef 2022-10-20 21:27:21 -07:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Move Vivien to CREDITS 2022-11-10 13:53:53 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS hyperv-fixes for v6.1-rc5 2022-11-11 09:24:03 -08:00
Makefile Linux 6.1-rc5 2022-11-13 13:12:55 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.