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Message-ID: <246d8bf0-2bee-7e1b-e0af-408920ece309@csgroup.eu>
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2022 18:33:11 +0000
From: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>
To: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
"linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] powerpc/powernv: wire up rng during setup_arch
Le 21/06/2022 à 16:08, Jason A. Donenfeld a écrit :
> The platform's RNG must be available before random_init() in order to be
> useful for initial seeding, which in turn means that it needs to be
> called from setup_arch(), rather than from an init call. Fortunately,
> each platform already has a setup_arch function pointer, which means we
> can wire it up that way. Complicating things, however, is that POWER8
> systems need some per-cpu state and kmalloc, which isn't available at
> this stage. So we split things up into an early phase and a later
> opportunistic phase. This commit also removes some noisy log messages
> that don't add much.
Regarding the kmalloc(), I have not looked at it in details, but usually
you can use memblock_alloc() when kmalloc is not available yet.
Christophe
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