[PATCH] random: do not use jump labels before they are initialized

Jason A. Donenfeld Jason at zx2c4.com
Tue Jun 7 04:35:16 PDT 2022


Hi Ard,

On Tue, Jun 07, 2022 at 01:10:52PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> Fair enough. What I would like is to remove the need to play around
> with the placement of jump_label_init() across architectures. Jump
> labels are fundamentally a performance optimization, so unless you can
> explain how setting it as early as possible makes a material
> difference, performance or otherwise, I really think we should pursue
> a solution that does the static key manipulation at some later time.

Alright. It sounds like Catalin also prefers the same. This seems simple
enough with minimal downsides: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220607113238.769088-1-Jason@zx2c4.com/

So maybe we should just go that route.

Jason



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