linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] random: always wake up entropy writers after extraction

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Message-ID: <Yf67Ppx5yDothW6d@owl.dominikbrodowski.net>
Date:   Sat, 5 Feb 2022 19:00:30 +0100
From:   Dominik Brodowski <linux@...inikbrodowski.net>
To:     "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
        Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>,
        Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] random: always wake up entropy writers after
 extraction

Am Sat, Feb 05, 2022 at 05:01:17PM +0100 schrieb Jason A. Donenfeld:
> Now that POOL_BITS == POOL_MIN_BITS, we must unconditionally wake up
> entropy writers after every extraction. Therefore there's no point of
> write_wakeup_threshold, so we can move it to the dustbin of unused
> compatibility sysctls. While we're at it, we can fix a small comparison
> where we were waking up after <= min rather than < min.
> 
> Suggested-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
> Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@...inikbrodowski.net>
> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@...c4.com>

	Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@...inikbrodowski.net>

Thanks,
	Dominik