linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.9 75/95] random: set up the NUMA crng instances after the CRNG is fully initialized

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Message-ID: <20180426172947.GC5965@thunk.org>
Date:   Thu, 26 Apr 2018 13:29:47 -0400
From:   "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        ben@...adent.org.uk, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, jannh@...gle.com, carnil@...ian.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.9 75/95] random: set up the NUMA crng instances after
 the CRNG is fully initialized

On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 03:53:58PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> Oh, pull request was already sent. Should be merged shortly.
> 
> https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=152472466201090&w=2

More testing, either before or after merging, would be greatly
appreciated.  One of the challenges is that there are a lot of systems
out there with different amounts of boot entropy available.  So this
pull request was needed to help deal with issues on crazy big machines
(CONFIG_NUMA) and crazy small laptops (old/small chromebooks
repurposed to support Ubuntu and small ARM systems) --- neither of
which I had access to when I was putting together the fixes to the
random driver.

So any feedback before 4.17 gets released would be really helpful!

Thanks!!

					- Ted