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Rather than use spinlocks to protect batched entropy, we can instead disable interrupts locally, since we're dealing with per-cpu data, and manage resets with a basic generation counter. At the same time, we can't quite do this on PREEMPT_RT, where we still want spinlocks-as- mutexes semantics. So we use a local_lock_t, which provides the right behavior for each. Because this is a per-cpu lock, that generation counter is still doing the necessary CPU-to-CPU communication. This should improve performance a bit. It will also fix the linked splat that Jonathan received with a PROVE_RAW_LOCK_NESTING=y. Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Reported-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net> Tested-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YfMa0QgsjCVdRAvJ@latitude/ Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Linux kernel
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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.