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On PREEMPT_RT, it's problematic to take spinlocks from hard irq handlers. We can fix this by deferring to a workqueue the dumping of the fast pool into the input pool. We accomplish this with some careful rules on fast_pool->count: - When it's incremented to >= 64, we schedule the work. - If the top bit is set, we never schedule the work, even if >= 64. - The worker is responsible for setting it back to 0 when it's done. There are two small issues around using workqueues for this purpose that we work around. The first issue is that mix_interrupt_randomness() might be migrated to another CPU during CPU hotplug. This issue is rectified by checking that it hasn't been migrated (after disabling irqs). If it has been migrated, then we set the count to zero, so that when the CPU comes online again, it can requeue the work. As part of this, we switch to using an atomic_t, so that the increment in the irq handler doesn't wipe out the zeroing if the CPU comes back online while this worker is running. The second issue is that, though relatively minor in effect, we probably want to make sure we get a consistent view of the pool onto the stack, in case it's interrupted by an irq while reading. To do this, we don't reenable irqs until after the copy. There are only 18 instructions between the cli and sti, so this is a pretty tiny window. Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net> Acked-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Sultan Alsawaf <sultan@kerneltoast.com> Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> |
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Linux kernel
============
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.