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Message-ID: <YuO4jj8rg9hjHErN@zx2c4.com>
Date:   Fri, 29 Jul 2022 12:38:06 +0200
From:   "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
To:     Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>,
        Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>, Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] random: Initialize vsprintf's pointer hash once the
 random core is ready.

Hi Sebastian,

On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 12:21:27PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> So launching a worker to obtain the random data? That would mean that
> the first %p print won't have nothing, right? I could do it as part of

"First" isn't very meaningful here. If the rng isn't initialized by
add_bootloader_randomness() or similar, then it'll almost miss some
amount of %p anyway.

But anyway, it sounds like you only need to hoist into a worker IF
you're `IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT) && in_hardirq()`, right? So just
conditionalize it on that, and this should have pretty minimal impact.

I don't think this patch will require touching random.c.

Jason

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