[PATCH 4/4] hwrng: bcm2835: Read as much data as available

Eric Anholt eric at anholt.net
Mon May 23 19:21:00 PDT 2016


Yendapally Reddy Dhananjaya Reddy <yendapally.reddy at broadcom.com>
writes:

> Read the requested number of data from the fifo
>
> Signed-off-by: Yendapally Reddy Dhananjaya Reddy <yendapally.reddy at broadcom.com>
> ---
>  drivers/char/hw_random/bcm2835-rng.c | 12 ++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/bcm2835-rng.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/bcm2835-rng.c
> index b1e8b78..9bbdc07 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/hw_random/bcm2835-rng.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/bcm2835-rng.c
> @@ -43,6 +43,8 @@ static int bcm2835_rng_read(struct hwrng *rng, void *buf, size_t max,
>  			       bool wait)
>  {
>  	void __iomem *rng_base = (void __iomem *)rng->priv;
> +	u32 max_words = max/sizeof(u32);

Style fix: Binary operators get a space on each side, so
"max / sizeof(u32);"

> @@ -50,8 +52,14 @@ static int bcm2835_rng_read(struct hwrng *rng, void *buf, size_t max,
>  		cpu_relax();
>  	}
>  
> -	*(u32 *)buf = __raw_readl(rng_base + RNG_DATA);
> -	return sizeof(u32);
> +	num_words = (readl(rng_base + RNG_STATUS) >> 24);

Optional cleanup: here and in the return statement, drop the extra
parenthesis.

Functionality-wise, this patch looks great to me, and should make the
driver more efficient.  With at least the binary operators change done,
it will be:

Reviewed-by: Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net>

Thanks!
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