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Linus Torvalds 72dbcf7215 Revert "ext4: make __ext4_get_inode_loc plug" 
This reverts commit b03755ad6f.

This is sad, and done for all the wrong reasons.  Because that commit is
good, and does exactly what it says: avoids a lot of small disk requests
for the inode table read-ahead.

However, it turns out that it causes an entirely unrelated problem: the
getrandom() system call was introduced back in 2014 by commit
c6e9d6f388 ("random: introduce getrandom(2) system call"), and people
use it as a convenient source of good random numbers.

But part of the current semantics for getrandom() is that it waits for
the entropy pool to fill at least partially (unlike /dev/urandom).  And
at least ArchLinux apparently has a systemd that uses getrandom() at
boot time, and the improvements in IO patterns means that existing
installations suddenly start hanging, waiting for entropy that will
never happen.

It seems to be an unlucky combination of not _quite_ enough entropy,
together with a particular systemd version and configuration.  Lennart
says that the systemd-random-seed process (which is what does this early
access) is supposed to not block any other boot activity, but sadly that
doesn't actually seem to be the case (possibly due bogus dependencies on
cryptsetup for encrypted swapspace).

The correct fix is to fix getrandom() to not block when it's not
appropriate, but that fix is going to take a lot more discussion.  Do we
just make it act like /dev/urandom by default, and add a new flag for
"wait for entropy"? Do we add a boot-time option? Or do we just limit
the amount of time it will wait for entropy?

So in the meantime, we do the revert to give us time to discuss the
eventual fix for the fundamental problem, at which point we can re-apply
the ext4 inode table access optimization.

Reported-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com>
Cc: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Cc: Alexander E. Patrakov <patrakov@gmail.com>
Cc: Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-09-15 12:32:03 -07:00
arch The main change here is a revert of reverts. We recently simplified some 2019-09-14 16:07:40 -07:00
block block: remove REQ_NOWAIT_INLINE 2019-08-15 11:09:16 -06:00
certs Revert "Merge tag 'keys-acl-20190703' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs" 2019-07-10 18:43:43 -07:00
crypto USB / PHY patches for 5.3-rc1 2019-07-11 15:40:06 -07:00
Documentation riscv: modify the Image header to improve compatibility with the ARM64 header 2019-09-13 19:03:52 -07:00
drivers virtio: a last minute revert 2019-09-14 16:02:49 -07:00
fs Revert "ext4: make __ext4_get_inode_loc plug" 2019-09-15 12:32:03 -07:00
include Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2019-09-14 12:20:38 -07:00
init Merge branch 'work.mount0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2019-07-19 10:42:02 -07:00
ipc ipc: fix sparc64 ipc() wrapper 2019-09-07 21:42:25 +02:00
kernel Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2019-09-14 12:20:38 -07:00
lib lib/Kconfig: fix OBJAGG in lib/ menu structure 2019-09-11 09:30:10 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
mm mm/balloon_compaction: suppress allocation warnings 2019-09-04 07:42:01 -04:00
net sctp: destroy bucket if failed to bind addr 2019-09-13 22:06:20 +02:00
samples auxdisplay: Fix a typo in cfag12864b-example.c 2019-08-08 20:00:18 +02:00
scripts SPDX fixes for 5.3-rc5 2019-08-18 09:26:16 -07:00
security keys: Fix missing null pointer check in request_key_auth_describe() 2019-09-05 14:19:25 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 5.3-rc8 2019-09-05 10:26:20 -07:00
tools Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2019-09-14 12:20:38 -07:00
usr kbuild: enable arch/s390/include/uapi/asm/zcrypt.h for uapi header test 2019-07-23 10:45:46 +02:00
virt arm64 fixes for -rc7 2019-08-28 10:37:21 -07:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2019-08-31 10:00:51 +02:00
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.mailmap mailmap: add aliases for Dmitry Safonov 2019-08-30 18:00:50 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS Remove references to dead website. 2019-07-19 12:22:04 -07:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v5.1 2019-03-10 17:48:21 -07:00
Kconfig docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-14 14:21:21 -06:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: add myself as maintainer for xilinx axiethernet driver 2019-09-06 15:17:16 +02:00
Makefile Linux 5.3-rc8 2019-09-08 13:33:15 -07:00
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.