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2014-05-30MIPS: Implement random_get_entropy with CP0 RandomMaciej W. Rozycki
Update to commit 9c9b415c50bc298ac61412dff856eae2f54889ee [MIPS: Reimplement get_cycles().] On systems were for whatever reasons we can't use the cycle counter, fall back to the c0_random register as an entropy source. It has however a very small range that makes it suitable for random_get_entropy only and not get_cycles. This optimised version compiles to 8 instructions in the fast path even in the worst case of all the conditions to check being variable (including a MFC0 move delay slot that is only required for very old processors): 828: 8cf90000 lw t9,0(a3) 828: R_MIPS_LO16 jiffies 82c: 40057800 mfc0 a1,c0_prid 830: 3c0200ff lui v0,0xff 834: 00a21024 and v0,a1,v0 838: 1040007d beqz v0,a30 <add_interrupt_randomness+0x22c> 83c: 3c030000 lui v1,0x0 83c: R_MIPS_HI16 cpu_data 840: 40024800 mfc0 v0,c0_count 844: 00000000 nop 848: 00409021 move s2,v0 84c: 8ce20000 lw v0,0(a3) 84c: R_MIPS_LO16 jiffies On most targets the sequence will be shorter and on some it will reduce to a single `MFC0 <reg>,c0_count', as all MIPS architecture (i.e. non-legacy MIPS) processors require the CP0 Count register to be present. The only known exception that reports MIPS architecture compliance, but contrary to that lacks CP0 Count is the Ingenic JZ4740 thingy. For broken platforms like that this code requires cpu_has_counter to be hardcoded to 0 (i.e. no variable setting is permitted) so as not to penalise all the other good platforms out there. The asm barrier is required so that the compiler does not pull any potentially costly (cold cache!) `cpu_data' variable access into the fast path. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: John Crispin <blogic@openwrt.org> Cc: Andrew McGregor <andrewmcgr@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Taht <dave.taht@bufferbloat.net> Cc: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name> Cc: Simon Kelley <simon@thekelleys.org.uk> Cc: Jim Gettys <jg@freedesktop.org> Cc: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/6702/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2013-09-18MIPS: Reimplement get_cycles().Ralf Baechle
This essentially reverts commit efb9ca08b5a2374b29938cdcab417ce4feb14b54 (kernel.org) / 58020a106879a8b372068741c81f0015c9b0b96dbv [[MIPS] Change get_cycles to always return 0.] Most users of get_cycles() invoke it as a timing interface. That's why in modern kernels it was never very much missed for. /dev/random however uses get_cycles() in the how the jitter in the interrupt timing contains some useful entropy. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-10-11MIPS: Move headfiles to new location below arch/mips/includeRalf Baechle
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>