From 8b0ca6c9977884895afc1af3f4a8d13f2b05a526 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2022 18:46:04 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] random: avoid reading two cache lines on irq randomness commit 9ee0507e896b45af6d65408c77815800bce30008 upstream. In order to avoid reading and dirtying two cache lines on every IRQ, move the work_struct to the bottom of the fast_pool struct. add_ interrupt_randomness() always touches .pool and .count, which are currently split, because .mix pushes everything down. Instead, move .mix to the bottom, so that .pool and .count are always in the first cache line, since .mix is only accessed when the pool is full. Fixes: 58340f8e952b ("random: defer fast pool mixing to worker") Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/char/random.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c index 1c9cb58dcce7..68c9d9d2455f 100644 --- a/drivers/char/random.c +++ b/drivers/char/random.c @@ -891,10 +891,10 @@ void __init add_bootloader_randomness(const void *buf, size_t len) } struct fast_pool { - struct work_struct mix; unsigned long pool[4]; unsigned long last; unsigned int count; + struct work_struct mix; }; static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct fast_pool, irq_randomness) = {