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Jason A. Donenfeld ceaf1feefe random: move initialization functions out of hot pages
commit 560181c27b582557d633ecb608110075433383af upstream.

Much of random.c is devoted to initializing the rng and accounting for
when a sufficient amount of entropy has been added. In a perfect world,
this would all happen during init, and so we could mark these functions
as __init. But in reality, this isn't the case: sometimes the rng only
finishes initializing some seconds after system init is finished.

For this reason, at the moment, a whole host of functions that are only
used relatively close to system init and then never again are intermixed
with functions that are used in hot code all the time. This creates more
cache misses than necessary.

In order to pack the hot code closer together, this commit moves the
initialization functions that can't be marked as __init into
.text.unlikely by way of the __cold attribute.

Of particular note is moving credit_init_bits() into a macro wrapper
that inlines the crng_ready() static branch check. This avoids a
function call to a nop+ret, and most notably prevents extra entropy
arithmetic from being computed in mix_interrupt_randomness().

Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-06-22 14:11:17 +02:00
arch xtensa: use fallback for random_get_entropy() instead of zero 2022-06-22 14:11:15 +02:00
block block: fix bio_clone_blkg_association() to associate with proper blkcg_gq 2022-06-14 18:11:50 +02:00
certs
crypto random: replace custom notifier chain with standard one 2022-06-22 14:11:13 +02:00
Documentation random: fix sysctl documentation nits 2022-06-22 14:11:14 +02:00
drivers random: move initialization functions out of hot pages 2022-06-22 14:11:17 +02:00
fs compat_ioctl: remove /dev/random commands 2022-06-22 14:11:03 +02:00
include random: make consistent use of buf and len 2022-06-22 14:11:17 +02:00
init random: handle latent entropy and command line from random_init() 2022-06-22 14:11:17 +02:00
ipc ipc/mqueue: use get_tree_nodev() in mqueue_get_tree() 2022-06-14 18:11:41 +02:00
kernel timekeeping: Add raw clock fallback for random_get_entropy() 2022-06-22 14:11:15 +02:00
lib random: remove ratelimiting for in-kernel unseeded randomness 2022-06-22 14:11:17 +02:00
LICENSES
mm hugetlb: fix huge_pmd_unshare address update 2022-06-14 18:11:48 +02:00
net tcp: fix tcp_mtup_probe_success vs wrong snd_cwnd 2022-06-14 18:12:03 +02:00
samples
scripts scripts/gdb: change kernel config dumping method 2022-06-14 18:12:02 +02:00
security efi: Do not import certificates from UEFI Secure Boot for T2 Macs 2022-06-14 18:11:44 +02:00
sound ALSA: hda/conexant - Fix loopback issue with CX20632 2022-06-14 18:12:02 +02:00
tools netfilter: nat: really support inet nat without l3 address 2022-06-14 18:11:57 +02:00
usr
virt KVM: Prevent module exit until all VMs are freed 2022-04-15 14:18:27 +02:00
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Makefile Linux 5.4.199 2022-06-16 13:23:32 +02:00
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