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authorJason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>2022-02-10 18:35:24 +0300
committerJason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>2022-02-21 23:14:00 +0300
commit95e6060c20a7f5db60163274c5222a725ac118f9 (patch)
tree890123955392de552aa00201a7565bddeb9b2a5d
parent0791e8b655cc373718f0f58800fdc625a3447ac5 (diff)
downloadlinux-95e6060c20a7f5db60163274c5222a725ac118f9.tar.xz
random: remove ifdef'd out interrupt bench
With tools like kbench9000 giving more finegrained responses, and this basically never having been used ever since it was initially added, let's just get rid of this. There *is* still work to be done on the interrupt handler, but this really isn't the way it's being developed. Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst9
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/random.c40
2 files changed, 0 insertions, 49 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
index d3c6d9a501a9..5dd660aac0ae 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
@@ -1041,15 +1041,6 @@ This is a directory, with the following entries:
are woken up. This file is writable for compatibility purposes, but
writing to it has no effect on any RNG behavior.
-If ``drivers/char/random.c`` is built with ``ADD_INTERRUPT_BENCH``
-defined, these additional entries are present:
-
-* ``add_interrupt_avg_cycles``: the average number of cycles between
- interrupts used to feed the pool;
-
-* ``add_interrupt_avg_deviation``: the standard deviation seen on the
- number of cycles between interrupts used to feed the pool.
-
randomize_va_space
==================
diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c
index c27ebf707380..35c440a0d83c 100644
--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -240,8 +240,6 @@
#define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
#include <trace/events/random.h>
-/* #define ADD_INTERRUPT_BENCH */
-
enum {
POOL_BITS = BLAKE2S_HASH_SIZE * 8,
POOL_MIN_BITS = POOL_BITS /* No point in settling for less. */
@@ -808,27 +806,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(add_input_randomness);
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct fast_pool, irq_randomness);
-#ifdef ADD_INTERRUPT_BENCH
-static unsigned long avg_cycles, avg_deviation;
-
-#define AVG_SHIFT 8 /* Exponential average factor k=1/256 */
-#define FIXED_1_2 (1 << (AVG_SHIFT - 1))
-
-static void add_interrupt_bench(cycles_t start)
-{
- long delta = random_get_entropy() - start;
-
- /* Use a weighted moving average */
- delta = delta - ((avg_cycles + FIXED_1_2) >> AVG_SHIFT);
- avg_cycles += delta;
- /* And average deviation */
- delta = abs(delta) - ((avg_deviation + FIXED_1_2) >> AVG_SHIFT);
- avg_deviation += delta;
-}
-#else
-#define add_interrupt_bench(x)
-#endif
-
static u32 get_reg(struct fast_pool *f, struct pt_regs *regs)
{
u32 *ptr = (u32 *)regs;
@@ -865,7 +842,6 @@ void add_interrupt_randomness(int irq)
(sizeof(ip) > 4) ? ip >> 32 : get_reg(fast_pool, regs);
fast_mix(fast_pool);
- add_interrupt_bench(cycles);
if (unlikely(crng_init == 0)) {
if (fast_pool->count >= 64 &&
@@ -1574,22 +1550,6 @@ static struct ctl_table random_table[] = {
.mode = 0444,
.proc_handler = proc_do_uuid,
},
-#ifdef ADD_INTERRUPT_BENCH
- {
- .procname = "add_interrupt_avg_cycles",
- .data = &avg_cycles,
- .maxlen = sizeof(avg_cycles),
- .mode = 0444,
- .proc_handler = proc_doulongvec_minmax,
- },
- {
- .procname = "add_interrupt_avg_deviation",
- .data = &avg_deviation,
- .maxlen = sizeof(avg_deviation),
- .mode = 0444,
- .proc_handler = proc_doulongvec_minmax,
- },
-#endif
{ }
};