From 61875f30daf60305712e25b209ef41ced2635bad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 13:58:22 -0400 Subject: random: allow architectures to optionally define random_get_entropy() Allow architectures which have a disabled get_cycles() function to provide a random_get_entropy() function which provides a fine-grained, rapidly changing counter that can be used by the /dev/random driver. For example, an architecture might have a rapidly changing register used to control random TLB cache eviction, or DRAM refresh that doesn't meet the requirements of get_cycles(), but which is good enough for the needs of the random driver. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org --- include/linux/timex.h | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/timex.h b/include/linux/timex.h index b3726e61368e..da4c32dbb2aa 100644 --- a/include/linux/timex.h +++ b/include/linux/timex.h @@ -64,6 +64,20 @@ #include +#ifndef random_get_entropy +/* + * The random_get_entropy() function is used by the /dev/random driver + * in order to extract entropy via the relative unpredictability of + * when an interrupt takes places versus a high speed, fine-grained + * timing source or cycle counter. Since it will be occurred on every + * single interrupt, it must have a very low cost/overhead. + * + * By default we use get_cycles() for this purpose, but individual + * architectures may override this in their asm/timex.h header file. + */ +#define random_get_entropy() get_cycles() +#endif + /* * SHIFT_PLL is used as a dampening factor to define how much we * adjust the frequency correction for a given offset in PLL mode. -- cgit v1.2.3