Make rcutorture RNG use temporal entropy
Repost of http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/10/472 made available by request. The locking used by get_random_bytes() can conflict with the preempt_disable() and synchronize_sched() form of RCU. This patch changes rcutorture's RNG to gather entropy from the new cpu_clock() interface (relying on interrupts, preemption, daemons, and rcutorture's reader thread's rock-bottom scheduling priority to provide useful entropy), and also adds and EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() to make that interface available to GPLed kernel modules such as rcutorture. Passes several hours of rcutorture. [ego@in.ibm.com: Use raw_smp_processor_id() in rcu_random()] Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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