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Jason A. Donenfeld 534d2eaf19 random: schedule mix_interrupt_randomness() less often 
It used to be that mix_interrupt_randomness() would credit 1 bit each
time it ran, and so add_interrupt_randomness() would schedule mix() to
run every 64 interrupts, a fairly arbitrary number, but nonetheless
considered to be a decent enough conservative estimate.

Since e3e33fc2ea ("random: do not use input pool from hard IRQs"),
mix() is now able to credit multiple bits, depending on the number of
calls to add(). This was done for reasons separate from this commit, but
it has the nice side effect of enabling this patch to schedule mix()
less often.

Currently the rules are:
a) Credit 1 bit for every 64 calls to add().
b) Schedule mix() once a second that add() is called.
c) Schedule mix() once every 64 calls to add().

Rules (a) and (c) no longer need to be coupled. It's still important to
have _some_ value in (c), so that we don't "over-saturate" the fast
pool, but the once per second we get from rule (b) is a plenty enough
baseline. So, by increasing the 64 in rule (c) to something larger, we
avoid calling queue_work_on() as frequently during irq storms.

This commit changes that 64 in rule (c) to be 1024, which means we
schedule mix() 16 times less often. And it does *not* need to change the
64 in rule (a).

Fixes: 58340f8e95 ("random: defer fast pool mixing to worker")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Acked-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
2022-06-19 23:50:45 +02:00
arch X86 updates: 2022-06-19 09:58:28 -05:00
block block/bfq: Enable I/O statistics 2022-06-16 16:59:28 -06:00
certs certs: fix and refactor CONFIG_SYSTEM_BLACKLIST_HASH_LIST build 2022-06-15 21:52:32 +03:00
crypto crypto: memneq - move into lib/ 2022-06-12 14:51:51 +08:00
Documentation A set of interrupt subsystem updates: 2022-06-19 09:45:16 -05:00
drivers random: schedule mix_interrupt_randomness() less often 2022-06-19 23:50:45 +02:00
fs Fixes for 5.19-rc3: 2022-06-19 09:24:49 -05:00
include Build tool updates: 2022-06-19 09:54:16 -05:00
init gcc-12: disable '-Warray-bounds' universally for now 2022-06-09 10:11:12 -07:00
ipc These changes update the ipc sysctls so that they are fundamentally 2022-06-03 15:54:57 -07:00
kernel A single scheduler fix plugging a race between sched_setscheduler() and 2022-06-19 09:51:00 -05:00
lib Build tool updates: 2022-06-19 09:54:16 -05:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
mm Merge tag 'fs_for_v5.19-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs 2022-06-17 10:09:24 -07:00
net NFS Client Fixes for Linux 5.19-rc 2022-06-17 15:17:57 -05:00
samples drm for 5.19-rc1 2022-05-25 16:18:27 -07:00
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security selinux: free contexts previously transferred in selinux_add_opt() 2022-06-15 21:20:45 -04:00
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usr Not a lot of material this cycle. Many singleton patches against various 2022-05-27 11:22:03 -07:00
virt KVM: x86: disable preemption around the call to kvm_arch_vcpu_{un|}blocking 2022-06-09 10:52:20 -04:00
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MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS rectifications and a few minor driver fixes 2022-06-19 09:35:09 -05:00
Makefile Linux 5.19-rc3 2022-06-19 15:06:47 -05:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

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.