On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 03:08:28AM -0500, Greg Price wrote: > The only mutable data accessed here is ->entropy_count, but since > 902c098a3 ("random: use lockless techniques in the interrupt path") > that member isn't protected by the lock anyway. Since 10b3a32d2 > ("random: fix accounting race condition") we use cmpxchg to protect > our accesses to ->entropy_count here. Drop the use of the lock.
Applied, with a slight change to clarify the commit description: The only mutable data accessed here is ->entropy_count, but since 10b3a32d2 ("random: fix accounting race condition") we use cmpxchg to protect our accesses to ->entropy_count here. Drop the use of the lock. Thanks! - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/