random: move initialization functions out of hot pages
Much of random.c is devoted to initializing the rng and accounting for when a sufficient amount of entropy has been added. In a perfect world, this would all happen during init, and so we could mark these functions as __init. But in reality, this isn't the case: sometimes the rng only finishes initializing some seconds after system init is finished. For this reason, at the moment, a whole host of functions that are only used relatively close to system init and then never again are intermixed with functions that are used in hot code all the time. This creates more cache misses than necessary. In order to pack the hot code closer together, this commit moves the initialization functions that can't be marked as __init into .text.unlikely by way of the __cold attribute. Of particular note is moving credit_init_bits() into a macro wrapper that inlines the crng_ready() static branch check. This avoids a function call to a nop+ret, and most notably prevents extra entropy arithmetic from being computed in mix_interrupt_randomness(). Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
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