On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 10:57 AM, Pekka Enberg wrote:
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> The virtio-rng part looks correct:
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> Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg
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> However, perhaps we ought to also fix live_entropy_sources_feed()
> _not_ to feed events to entropy_processor() if entropy
On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 10:39 AM, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> random_kthread() has a loop, where it tries to get some entropy from
> all sources (including the ring of internal events), feeds it into the
> entropy pool, and then sleeps a bit and tries again, ad infinitum.
>
> If the
Gregor, can you please test if this patch really makes your /dev/urandom
hang go away?
Tomek and/or Pekka, can you please review this patch? (its comment is much
longer than the actual patch ;-) ).
Thanks.
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Nadav Har'El
n...@scylladb.com
On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 10:39 AM, Nadav Har'El
random_kthread() has a loop, where it tries to get some entropy from
all sources (including the ring of internal events), feeds it into the
entropy pool, and then sleeps a bit and tries again, ad infinitum.
If the read function of *one* of the entropy sources blocks, the entire
random_kthread()