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commit 1c99c6a7c3c599a68321b01b9ec243215ede5a68 upstream. For situations in which we don't have a c0 counter register available, we've been falling back to reading the c0 "random" register, which is usually bounded by the amount of TLB entries and changes every other cycle or so. This means it wraps extremely often. We can do better by combining this fast-changing counter with a potentially slower-changing counter from random_get_entropy_fallback() in the more significant bits. This commit combines the two, taking into account that the changing bits are in a different bit position depending on the CPU model. In addition, we previously were falling back to 0 for ancient CPUs that Linux does not support anyway; remove that dead path entirely. Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Tested-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@orcam.me.uk> Acked-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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.