[PATCH v2 11/11] xtensa: use ktime_read_raw_clock() for random_get_entropy() instead of zero

Jason A. Donenfeld Jason at zx2c4.com
Sun Apr 10 14:49:51 PDT 2022


In the event that random_get_entropy() can't access a cycle counter or
similar, falling back to returning 0 is really not the best we can do.
Instead, at least calling ktime_read_raw_clock() would be preferable,
because that always needs to return _something_, even falling back to
jiffies eventually. It's not as though ktime_read_raw_clock() is super
high precision or guaranteed to be entropic, but basically anything
that's not zero all the time is better than returning zero all the time.

This is accomplished by just including the asm-generic code like on
other architectures, which means we can get rid of the empty stub
function here.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason at zx2c4.com>
---
 arch/xtensa/include/asm/timex.h | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/xtensa/include/asm/timex.h b/arch/xtensa/include/asm/timex.h
index 233ec75e60c6..3f2462f2d027 100644
--- a/arch/xtensa/include/asm/timex.h
+++ b/arch/xtensa/include/asm/timex.h
@@ -29,10 +29,6 @@
 
 extern unsigned long ccount_freq;
 
-typedef unsigned long long cycles_t;
-
-#define get_cycles()	(0)
-
 void local_timer_setup(unsigned cpu);
 
 /*
@@ -59,4 +55,6 @@ static inline void set_linux_timer (unsigned long ccompare)
 	xtensa_set_sr(ccompare, SREG_CCOMPARE + LINUX_TIMER);
 }
 
+#include <asm-generic/timex.h>
+
 #endif	/* _XTENSA_TIMEX_H */
-- 
2.35.1




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