From: Jason A. Donenfeld Jason@zx2c4.com
commit 9ee0507e896b45af6d65408c77815800bce30008 upstream.
In order to avoid reading and dirtying two cache lines on every IRQ, move the work_struct to the bottom of the fast_pool struct. add_ interrupt_randomness() always touches .pool and .count, which are currently split, because .mix pushes everything down. Instead, move .mix to the bottom, so that .pool and .count are always in the first cache line, since .mix is only accessed when the pool is full.
Fixes: 58340f8e952b ("random: defer fast pool mixing to worker") Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior bigeasy@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld Jason@zx2c4.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/char/random.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/char/random.c +++ b/drivers/char/random.c @@ -903,10 +903,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(unregister_random_vmfo #endif
struct fast_pool { - struct work_struct mix; unsigned long pool[4]; unsigned long last; unsigned int count; + struct work_struct mix; };
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct fast_pool, irq_randomness) = {