* [patch 22/38] random: Provide CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_RANDOM_ENTROPY
From: Thomas Gleixner @ 2026-04-10 12:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: LKML
Cc: Jason A. Donenfeld, Arnd Bergmann, x86, Lu Baolu, iommu,
Michael Grzeschik, netdev, linux-wireless, Herbert Xu,
linux-crypto, Vlastimil Babka, linux-mm, David Woodhouse,
Bernie Thompson, linux-fbdev, Theodore Tso, linux-ext4,
Andrew Morton, Uladzislau Rezki, Marco Elver, Dmitry Vyukov,
kasan-dev, Andrey Ryabinin, Thomas Sailer, linux-hams,
Richard Henderson, linux-alpha, Russell King, linux-arm-kernel,
Catalin Marinas, Huacai Chen, loongarch, Geert Uytterhoeven,
linux-m68k, Dinh Nguyen, Jonas Bonn, linux-openrisc, Helge Deller,
linux-parisc, Michael Ellerman, linuxppc-dev, Paul Walmsley,
linux-riscv, Heiko Carstens, linux-s390, David S. Miller,
sparclinux
In-Reply-To: <20260410120044.031381086@kernel.org>
Chasing down to what random_get_entropy() resolves is a 'spot the mouse'
game through a maze of #ifdeffery. Also the placement in timex.h is
non-obvious and has just been chosen because it provides conveniant access
to the underlying get_cycles() #ifdeffery.
Provide a config switch which is selectable by the architecture and a
temporary #ifdef guard in timex.h. Architectures which select the config
switch must provide asm/random.h with the architecture specific
implementation.
Update all usage sites to include linux/random.h so that the gradual
conversion does not cause build regressions.
This is part of a larger effort to remove get_cycles() usage from
non-architecture code.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
---
arch/Kconfig | 3 +++
arch/loongarch/kernel/relocate.c | 1 +
arch/mips/kernel/relocate.c | 1 +
crypto/jitterentropy-kcapi.c | 1 +
include/linux/random.h | 15 +++++++++++++++
include/linux/timex.h | 2 ++
kernel/kcsan/core.c | 1 +
7 files changed, 24 insertions(+)
--- a/arch/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/Kconfig
@@ -370,6 +370,9 @@ config ARCH_HAS_CPU_FINALIZE_INIT
config ARCH_HAS_DELAY_TIMER
bool
+config ARCH_HAS_RANDOM_ENTROPY
+ bool
+
# The architecture has a per-task state that includes the mm's PASID
config ARCH_HAS_CPU_PASID
bool
--- a/arch/loongarch/kernel/relocate.c
+++ b/arch/loongarch/kernel/relocate.c
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/printk.h>
#include <linux/panic_notifier.h>
+#include <linux/random.h>
#include <linux/start_kernel.h>
#include <asm/bootinfo.h>
#include <asm/early_ioremap.h>
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/relocate.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/relocate.c
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
#include <linux/libfdt.h>
#include <linux/of_fdt.h>
#include <linux/panic_notifier.h>
+#include <linux/random.h>
#include <linux/sched/task.h>
#include <linux/start_kernel.h>
#include <linux/string.h>
--- a/crypto/jitterentropy-kcapi.c
+++ b/crypto/jitterentropy-kcapi.c
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
#include <linux/fips.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/random.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/time.h>
#include <crypto/internal/rng.h>
--- a/include/linux/random.h
+++ b/include/linux/random.h
@@ -139,4 +139,19 @@ int random_online_cpu(unsigned int cpu);
extern const struct file_operations random_fops, urandom_fops;
#endif
+unsigned long random_get_entropy_fallback(void);
+
+/*
+ * random_get_entropy() is used by the /dev/random driver in order to extract
+ * entropy via the relative unpredictability of when an interrupt takes places
+ * versus a high speed, fine-grained timing source or cycle counter. Since it
+ * will be occurred on every single interrupt, it must have a very low
+ * cost/overhead.
+ *
+ * If an architecture does not provide it, then use random_get_entropy_fallback().
+ */
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_RANDOM_ENTROPY
+#include <asm/random.h>
+#endif
+
#endif /* _LINUX_RANDOM_H */
--- a/include/linux/timex.h
+++ b/include/linux/timex.h
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ unsigned long random_get_entropy_fallbac
#include <asm/timex.h>
+#ifndef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_RANDOM_ENTROPY
#ifndef random_get_entropy
/*
* The random_get_entropy() function is used by the /dev/random driver
@@ -85,6 +86,7 @@ unsigned long random_get_entropy_fallbac
#define random_get_entropy() random_get_entropy_fallback()
#endif
#endif
+#endif
/*
* SHIFT_PLL is used as a dampening factor to define how much we
--- a/kernel/kcsan/core.c
+++ b/kernel/kcsan/core.c
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
#include <linux/moduleparam.h>
#include <linux/percpu.h>
#include <linux/preempt.h>
+#include <linux/random.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/string.h>
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
^ permalink raw reply
* [patch 23/38] alpha: Select ARCH_HAS_RANDOM_ENTROPY
From: Thomas Gleixner @ 2026-04-10 12:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: LKML
Cc: Richard Henderson, linux-alpha, Arnd Bergmann, x86, Lu Baolu,
iommu, Michael Grzeschik, netdev, linux-wireless, Herbert Xu,
linux-crypto, Vlastimil Babka, linux-mm, David Woodhouse,
Bernie Thompson, linux-fbdev, Theodore Tso, linux-ext4,
Andrew Morton, Uladzislau Rezki, Marco Elver, Dmitry Vyukov,
kasan-dev, Andrey Ryabinin, Thomas Sailer, linux-hams,
Jason A. Donenfeld, Russell King, linux-arm-kernel,
Catalin Marinas, Huacai Chen, loongarch, Geert Uytterhoeven,
linux-m68k, Dinh Nguyen, Jonas Bonn, linux-openrisc, Helge Deller,
linux-parisc, Michael Ellerman, linuxppc-dev, Paul Walmsley,
linux-riscv, Heiko Carstens, linux-s390, David S. Miller,
sparclinux
In-Reply-To: <20260410120044.031381086@kernel.org>
The only remaining usage of get_cycles() is to provide
random_get_entropy().
Switch alpha over to the new scheme of selecting ARCH_HAS_RANDOM_ENTROPY
and providing random_get_entropy() in asm/random.h.
Remove asm/timex.h as it has no functionality anymore.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Cc: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
---
arch/alpha/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/alpha/include/asm/random.h | 14 ++++++++++++++
arch/alpha/include/asm/timex.h | 26 --------------------------
3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/alpha/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/alpha/Kconfig
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ config ALPHA
select ARCH_32BIT_USTAT_F_TINODE
select ARCH_HAS_CURRENT_STACK_POINTER
select ARCH_HAS_DMA_OPS if PCI
+ select ARCH_HAS_RANDOM_ENTROPY
select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_PARPORT
select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_SERIO
select ARCH_MODULE_NEEDS_WEAK_PER_CPU if SMP
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/alpha/include/asm/random.h
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+#ifndef _ASMALPHA_RANDOM_H
+#define _ASMALPHA_RANDOM_H
+
+/* Use the cycle counter for entropy. */
+static inline unsigned long random_get_entropy(void)
+{
+ unsigned long ret;
+
+ __asm__ __volatile__ ("rpcc %0" : "=r"(ret));
+ return ret;
+}
+
+#endif
--- a/arch/alpha/include/asm/timex.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
-/*
- * linux/include/asm-alpha/timex.h
- *
- * ALPHA architecture timex specifications
- */
-#ifndef _ASMALPHA_TIMEX_H
-#define _ASMALPHA_TIMEX_H
-
-/*
- * Standard way to access the cycle counter.
- * Currently only used on SMP for scheduling.
- *
- * Only the low 32 bits are available as a continuously counting entity.
- * But this only means we'll force a reschedule every 8 seconds or so,
- * which isn't an evil thing.
- */
-static inline cycles_t get_cycles (void)
-{
- cycles_t ret;
- __asm__ __volatile__ ("rpcc %0" : "=r"(ret));
- return ret;
-}
-#define get_cycles get_cycles
-
-#endif
^ permalink raw reply
* [patch 24/38] ARM: Select ARCH_HAS_RANDOM_ENTROPY
From: Thomas Gleixner @ 2026-04-10 12:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: LKML
Cc: Russell King, linux-arm-kernel, Arnd Bergmann, x86, Lu Baolu,
iommu, Michael Grzeschik, netdev, linux-wireless, Herbert Xu,
linux-crypto, Vlastimil Babka, linux-mm, David Woodhouse,
Bernie Thompson, linux-fbdev, Theodore Tso, linux-ext4,
Andrew Morton, Uladzislau Rezki, Marco Elver, Dmitry Vyukov,
kasan-dev, Andrey Ryabinin, Thomas Sailer, linux-hams,
Jason A. Donenfeld, Richard Henderson, linux-alpha,
Catalin Marinas, Huacai Chen, loongarch, Geert Uytterhoeven,
linux-m68k, Dinh Nguyen, Jonas Bonn, linux-openrisc, Helge Deller,
linux-parisc, Michael Ellerman, linuxppc-dev, Paul Walmsley,
linux-riscv, Heiko Carstens, linux-s390, David S. Miller,
sparclinux
In-Reply-To: <20260410120044.031381086@kernel.org>
The only remaining usage of get_cycles() is to provide
random_get_entropy().
Switch ARM over to the new scheme of selecting ARCH_HAS_RANDOM_ENTROPY and
providing random_get_entropy() in asm/random.h.
Remove asm/timex.h as it has no functionality anymore.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
---
arch/arm/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/arm/include/asm/random.h | 14 ++++++++++++++
arch/arm/include/asm/timex.h | 18 ------------------
arch/arm/lib/delay.c | 4 ++--
4 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ config ARM
select ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE
select ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE
select ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL if ARM_LPAE
+ select ARCH_HAS_RANDOM_ENTROPY
select ARCH_HAS_SETUP_DMA_OPS
select ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY
select ARCH_STACKWALK
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/random.h
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only */
+#ifndef _ASMARM_RANDOM_H
+#define _ASMARM_RANDOM_H
+
+bool delay_read_timer(unsigned long *t);
+
+static inline unsigned long random_get_entropy(void)
+{
+ unsigned long t;
+
+ return delay_read_timer(&t) ? t : random_get_entropy_fallback();
+}
+
+#endif
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/timex.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only */
-/*
- * arch/arm/include/asm/timex.h
- *
- * Copyright (C) 1997,1998 Russell King
- *
- * Architecture Specific TIME specifications
- */
-#ifndef _ASMARM_TIMEX_H
-#define _ASMARM_TIMEX_H
-
-// Temporary workaround
-bool delay_read_timer(unsigned long *t);
-
-#define get_cycles() ({ cycles_t c; delay_read_timer(&c) ? 0 : c; })
-#define random_get_entropy() (((unsigned long)get_cycles()) ?: random_get_entropy_fallback())
-
-#endif
--- a/arch/arm/lib/delay.c
+++ b/arch/arm/lib/delay.c
@@ -42,9 +42,9 @@ static inline u64 cyc_to_ns(u64 cyc, u32
static void __timer_delay(unsigned long cycles)
{
- cycles_t start = get_cycles();
+ cycles_t start = delay_timer->read_current_timer();
- while ((get_cycles() - start) < cycles)
+ while ((delay_timer->read_current_timer() - start) < cycles)
cpu_relax();
}
^ permalink raw reply
* [patch 25/38] arm64: Select ARCH_HAS_RANDOM_ENTROPY
From: Thomas Gleixner @ 2026-04-10 12:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: LKML
Cc: Catalin Marinas, linux-arm-kernel, Arnd Bergmann, x86, Lu Baolu,
iommu, Michael Grzeschik, netdev, linux-wireless, Herbert Xu,
linux-crypto, Vlastimil Babka, linux-mm, David Woodhouse,
Bernie Thompson, linux-fbdev, Theodore Tso, linux-ext4,
Andrew Morton, Uladzislau Rezki, Marco Elver, Dmitry Vyukov,
kasan-dev, Andrey Ryabinin, Thomas Sailer, linux-hams,
Jason A. Donenfeld, Richard Henderson, linux-alpha, Russell King,
Huacai Chen, loongarch, Geert Uytterhoeven, linux-m68k,
Dinh Nguyen, Jonas Bonn, linux-openrisc, Helge Deller,
linux-parisc, Michael Ellerman, linuxppc-dev, Paul Walmsley,
linux-riscv, Heiko Carstens, linux-s390, David S. Miller,
sparclinux
In-Reply-To: <20260410120044.031381086@kernel.org>
The only remaining usage of get_cycles() is to provide random_get_entropy().
Switch arm64 over to the new scheme of selecting ARCH_HAS_RANDOM_ENTROPY
and providing random_get_entropy() in asm/random.h.
As a consequence this unearthed a nasty include dependecy hell where random
code including rqspinlock.h relies on a magic include of asm/arch_timer.h.
Including the headers in asm/random.h turned out to be impossible as well.
The only solution for now is to uninline random_get_entropy(). Fix up all
other dependencies on the content of asm/timex.h in those files which
really depend on it.
Remove asm/timex.h as it has no functionality anymore.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
---
arch/arm64/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/arm64/include/asm/io.h | 5 +++--
arch/arm64/include/asm/random.h | 11 +++++++++++
arch/arm64/include/asm/rqspinlock.h | 1 +
arch/arm64/include/asm/timex.h | 18 ------------------
arch/arm64/kernel/time.c | 6 ++++++
arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c | 1 +
arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c | 1 +
arch/arm64/kvm/emulate-nested.c | 1 +
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/hyp/switch.h | 1 +
arch/arm64/lib/delay.c | 1 +
drivers/irqchip/irq-apple-aic.c | 1 +
12 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ config ARM64
select ARCH_HAS_PREEMPT_LAZY
select ARCH_HAS_PTDUMP
select ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL
+ select ARCH_HAS_RANDOM_ENTROPY
select ARCH_HAS_HW_PTE_YOUNG
select ARCH_HAS_SETUP_DMA_OPS
select ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/io.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/io.h
@@ -100,12 +100,13 @@ static __always_inline u64 __raw_readq(c
({ \
unsigned long tmp; \
\
- dma_rmb(); \
+ dma_rmb(); \
\
/* \
* Create a dummy control dependency from the IO read to any \
* later instructions. This ensures that a subsequent call to \
- * udelay() will be ordered due to the ISB in get_cycles(). \
+ * udelay() will be ordered due to the ISB in \
+ * arm_timer_read_counter(). \
*/ \
asm volatile("eor %0, %1, %1\n" \
"cbnz %0, ." \
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/random.h
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only */
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2012 ARM Ltd.
+ */
+#ifndef __ASM_RANDOM_H
+#define __ASM_RANDOM_H
+
+/* Out of line to avoid recursive include hell */
+unsigned long random_get_entropy(void);
+
+#endif
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/rqspinlock.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/rqspinlock.h
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
#ifndef _ASM_RQSPINLOCK_H
#define _ASM_RQSPINLOCK_H
+#include <asm/arch_timer.h>
#include <asm/barrier.h>
/*
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/timex.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only */
-/*
- * Copyright (C) 2012 ARM Ltd.
- */
-#ifndef __ASM_TIMEX_H
-#define __ASM_TIMEX_H
-
-#include <asm/arch_timer.h>
-
-/*
- * Use the current timer as a cycle counter since this is what we use for
- * the delay loop.
- */
-#define get_cycles() arch_timer_read_counter()
-
-#include <asm-generic/timex.h>
-
-#endif
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/time.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/time.c
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
#include <clocksource/arm_arch_timer.h>
+#include <asm/arch_timer.h>
#include <asm/thread_info.h>
#include <asm/paravirt.h>
@@ -52,6 +53,11 @@ unsigned long profile_pc(struct pt_regs
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(profile_pc);
+static unsigned long random_get_entropy(void)
+{
+ return arch_timer_read_counter();
+}
+
void __init time_init(void)
{
u32 arch_timer_rate;
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
#include <linux/sched/isolation.h>
#include <linux/xarray.h>
+#include <asm/arch_timer.h>
#include <asm/cpu.h>
#include <asm/cputype.h>
#include <asm/topology.h>
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
#include <linux/ubsan.h>
#include <linux/cfi.h>
+#include <asm/arch_timer.h>
#include <asm/atomic.h>
#include <asm/bug.h>
#include <asm/cpufeature.h>
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/emulate-nested.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/emulate-nested.c
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
#include <linux/kvm.h>
#include <linux/kvm_host.h>
+#include <asm/arch_timer.h>
#include <asm/kvm_emulate.h>
#include <asm/kvm_nested.h>
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/hyp/switch.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/hyp/switch.h
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
#include <kvm/arm_psci.h>
+#include <asm/arch_timer.h>
#include <asm/barrier.h>
#include <asm/cpufeature.h>
#include <asm/extable.h>
--- a/arch/arm64/lib/delay.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/lib/delay.c
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
#include <linux/timex.h>
#include <clocksource/arm_arch_timer.h>
+#include <asm/arch_timer.h>
#define USECS_TO_CYCLES(time_usecs) \
xloops_to_cycles((time_usecs) * 0x10C7UL)
--- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-apple-aic.c
+++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-apple-aic.c
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@
#include <linux/jump_label.h>
#include <linux/limits.h>
#include <linux/of_address.h>
+#include <asm/arch_timer.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <asm/apple_m1_pmu.h>
#include <asm/cputype.h>
^ permalink raw reply
* [patch 26/38] loongarch: Select ARCH_HAS_RANDOM_ENTROPY
From: Thomas Gleixner @ 2026-04-10 12:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: LKML
Cc: Huacai Chen, loongarch, Arnd Bergmann, x86, Lu Baolu, iommu,
Michael Grzeschik, netdev, linux-wireless, Herbert Xu,
linux-crypto, Vlastimil Babka, linux-mm, David Woodhouse,
Bernie Thompson, linux-fbdev, Theodore Tso, linux-ext4,
Andrew Morton, Uladzislau Rezki, Marco Elver, Dmitry Vyukov,
kasan-dev, Andrey Ryabinin, Thomas Sailer, linux-hams,
Jason A. Donenfeld, Richard Henderson, linux-alpha, Russell King,
linux-arm-kernel, Catalin Marinas, Geert Uytterhoeven, linux-m68k,
Dinh Nguyen, Jonas Bonn, linux-openrisc, Helge Deller,
linux-parisc, Michael Ellerman, linuxppc-dev, Paul Walmsley,
linux-riscv, Heiko Carstens, linux-s390, David S. Miller,
sparclinux
In-Reply-To: <20260410120044.031381086@kernel.org>
The only remaining non-architecture usage of get_cycles() is to provide
random_get_entropy().
Switch loongarch over to the new scheme of selecting ARCH_HAS_RANDOM_ENTROPY
and providing random_get_entropy() in asm/random.h.
Add 'asm/timex.h' includes to the relevant files, so the global include can
be removed once all architectures are converted over.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
Cc: loongarch@lists.linux.dev
---
arch/loongarch/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/loongarch/include/asm/random.h | 15 +++++++++++++++
arch/loongarch/kernel/syscall.c | 1 +
arch/loongarch/lib/delay.c | 2 +-
4 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/loongarch/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/loongarch/Kconfig
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ config LOONGARCH
select ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE
select ARCH_HAS_PREEMPT_LAZY
select ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL
+ select ARCH_HAS_RANDOM_ENTROPY
select ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY
select ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP
select ARCH_HAS_TICK_BROADCAST if GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/loongarch/include/asm/random.h
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2020-2022 Loongson Technology Corporation Limited
+ */
+#ifndef _ASM_RANDOM_H
+#define _ASM_RANDOM_H
+
+#include <asm/timex.h>
+
+static inline unsigned long random_get_entropy(void)
+{
+ return get_cycles();
+}
+
+#endif /* _ASM_RANDOM_H */
--- a/arch/loongarch/kernel/syscall.c
+++ b/arch/loongarch/kernel/syscall.c
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
#include <asm/loongarch.h>
#include <asm/signal.h>
#include <asm/switch_to.h>
+#include <asm/timex.h>
#include <asm-generic/syscalls.h>
#undef __SYSCALL
--- a/arch/loongarch/lib/delay.c
+++ b/arch/loongarch/lib/delay.c
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@
#include <linux/delay.h>
#include <linux/export.h>
#include <linux/smp.h>
-#include <linux/timex.h>
#include <asm/processor.h>
+#include <asm/timex.h>
void __delay(unsigned long cycles)
{
^ permalink raw reply
* [patch 27/38] m68k: Select ARCH_HAS_RANDOM_ENTROPY
From: Thomas Gleixner @ 2026-04-10 12:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: LKML
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven, linux-m68k, Arnd Bergmann, x86, Lu Baolu,
iommu, Michael Grzeschik, netdev, linux-wireless, Herbert Xu,
linux-crypto, Vlastimil Babka, linux-mm, David Woodhouse,
Bernie Thompson, linux-fbdev, Theodore Tso, linux-ext4,
Andrew Morton, Uladzislau Rezki, Marco Elver, Dmitry Vyukov,
kasan-dev, Andrey Ryabinin, Thomas Sailer, linux-hams,
Jason A. Donenfeld, Richard Henderson, linux-alpha, Russell King,
linux-arm-kernel, Catalin Marinas, Huacai Chen, loongarch,
Dinh Nguyen, Jonas Bonn, linux-openrisc, Helge Deller,
linux-parisc, Michael Ellerman, linuxppc-dev, Paul Walmsley,
linux-riscv, Heiko Carstens, linux-s390, David S. Miller,
sparclinux
In-Reply-To: <20260410120044.031381086@kernel.org>
The only remaining usage of get_cycles() is to provide
random_get_entropy().
Switch m68k over to the new scheme of selecting ARCH_HAS_RANDOM_ENTROPY and
providing random_get_entropy() in asm/random.h.
Remove asm/timex.h as it has no functionality anymore.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org
---
arch/m68k/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/m68k/amiga/config.c | 1 +
arch/m68k/include/asm/random.h | 14 ++++++++++++++
arch/m68k/include/asm/timex.h | 25 -------------------------
arch/m68k/kernel/time.c | 2 +-
5 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/m68k/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/m68k/Kconfig
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ config M68K
select ARCH_HAS_CPU_FINALIZE_INIT if MMU
select ARCH_HAS_CURRENT_STACK_POINTER
select ARCH_HAS_DMA_PREP_COHERENT if M68K_NONCOHERENT_DMA && !COLDFIRE
+ select ARCH_HAS_RANDOM_ENTROPY
select ARCH_HAS_SYNC_DMA_FOR_DEVICE if M68K_NONCOHERENT_DMA
select ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG if RMW_INSNS
select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_PARPORT if ISA
--- a/arch/m68k/amiga/config.c
+++ b/arch/m68k/amiga/config.c
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
#include <asm/machdep.h>
#include <asm/io.h>
#include <asm/config.h>
+#include <asm/random.h>
#include "amiga.h"
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/m68k/include/asm/random.h
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+#ifndef _ASMm68K_RANDOM_H
+#define _ASMm68K_RANDOM_H
+
+extern unsigned long (*mach_random_get_entropy)(void);
+
+static inline unsigned long random_get_entropy(void)
+{
+ if (mach_random_get_entropy)
+ return mach_random_get_entropy();
+ return random_get_entropy_fallback();
+}
+
+#endif
--- a/arch/m68k/include/asm/timex.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
-/*
- * linux/include/asm-m68k/timex.h
- *
- * m68k architecture timex specifications
- */
-#ifndef _ASMm68K_TIMEX_H
-#define _ASMm68K_TIMEX_H
-
-static inline cycles_t get_cycles(void)
-{
- return 0;
-}
-
-extern unsigned long (*mach_random_get_entropy)(void);
-
-static inline unsigned long random_get_entropy(void)
-{
- if (mach_random_get_entropy)
- return mach_random_get_entropy();
- return random_get_entropy_fallback();
-}
-#define random_get_entropy random_get_entropy
-
-#endif
--- a/arch/m68k/kernel/time.c
+++ b/arch/m68k/kernel/time.c
@@ -26,12 +26,12 @@
#include <asm/machdep.h>
#include <asm/io.h>
#include <asm/irq_regs.h>
+#include <asm/random.h>
#include <linux/time.h>
#include <linux/timex.h>
#include <linux/profile.h>
-
unsigned long (*mach_random_get_entropy)(void);
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mach_random_get_entropy);
^ permalink raw reply
* [patch 28/38] mips: Select ARCH_HAS_RANDOM_ENTROPY
From: Thomas Gleixner @ 2026-04-10 12:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: LKML
Cc: Arnd Bergmann, x86, Lu Baolu, iommu, Michael Grzeschik, netdev,
linux-wireless, Herbert Xu, linux-crypto, Vlastimil Babka,
linux-mm, David Woodhouse, Bernie Thompson, linux-fbdev,
Theodore Tso, linux-ext4, Andrew Morton, Uladzislau Rezki,
Marco Elver, Dmitry Vyukov, kasan-dev, Andrey Ryabinin,
Thomas Sailer, linux-hams, Jason A. Donenfeld, Richard Henderson,
linux-alpha, Russell King, linux-arm-kernel, Catalin Marinas,
Huacai Chen, loongarch, Geert Uytterhoeven, linux-m68k,
Dinh Nguyen, Jonas Bonn, linux-openrisc, Helge Deller,
linux-parisc, Michael Ellerman, linuxppc-dev, Paul Walmsley,
linux-riscv, Heiko Carstens, linux-s390, David S. Miller,
sparclinux
In-Reply-To: <20260410120044.031381086@kernel.org>
The only remaining usage of get_cycles() is to provide random_get_entropy().
Switch mips over to the new scheme of selecting ARCH_HAS_RANDOM_ENTROPY
and providing random_get_entropy() in asm/random.h.
As a consequence this unearthed a nasty include dependency hell because
arbitrary code relies on a magic include of asm/timex.h. Including the
headers in asm/random.h turned out to be impossible as well.
The only solution for now is to uninline random_get_entropy(). Fix up all
other dependencies on the content of asm/timex.h in those files which
really depend on it.
Remove asm/timex.h as it has no functionality anymore.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
---
arch/mips/Kconfig | 1
arch/mips/generic/init.c | 1
arch/mips/include/asm/random.h | 7 +++
arch/mips/include/asm/timex.h | 92 -----------------------------------------
arch/mips/kernel/pm-cps.c | 1
arch/mips/kernel/proc.c | 1
arch/mips/kernel/relocate.c | 1
arch/mips/kernel/time.c | 53 +++++++++++++++++++++++
arch/mips/lib/dump_tlb.c | 1
arch/mips/mm/cache.c | 1
10 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 93 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/mips/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/mips/Kconfig
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ config MIPS
select ARCH_HAS_TICK_BROADCAST if GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST
select ARCH_HAS_UBSAN
select ARCH_HAS_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL
+ select ARCH_HAS_RANDOM_ENTROPY
select ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK
select ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
select ARCH_USE_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF if 64BIT
--- a/arch/mips/generic/init.c
+++ b/arch/mips/generic/init.c
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
#include <linux/of_fdt.h>
#include <asm/bootinfo.h>
+#include <asm/cpu-type.h>
#include <asm/fw/fw.h>
#include <asm/irq_cpu.h>
#include <asm/machine.h>
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/random.h
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-v2.0-only */
+#ifndef _ASM_RANDOM_H
+#define _ASM_RANDOM_H
+
+unsigned long random_get_entropy(void);
+
+#endif /* _ASM_RANDOM_H */
--- a/arch/mips/include/asm/timex.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,92 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * This file is subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public
- * License. See the file "COPYING" in the main directory of this archive
- * for more details.
- *
- * Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2003 by Ralf Baechle
- * Copyright (C) 2014 by Maciej W. Rozycki
- */
-#ifndef _ASM_TIMEX_H
-#define _ASM_TIMEX_H
-
-#ifdef __KERNEL__
-
-#include <linux/compiler.h>
-
-#include <asm/cpu.h>
-#include <asm/cpu-features.h>
-#include <asm/mipsregs.h>
-#include <asm/cpu-type.h>
-
-/*
- * Standard way to access the cycle counter.
- * Currently only used on SMP for scheduling.
- *
- * Only the low 32 bits are available as a continuously counting entity.
- * But this only means we'll force a reschedule every 8 seconds or so,
- * which isn't an evil thing.
- *
- * We know that all SMP capable CPUs have cycle counters.
- */
-
-/*
- * On R4000/R4400 an erratum exists such that if the cycle counter is
- * read in the exact moment that it is matching the compare register,
- * no interrupt will be generated.
- *
- * There is a suggested workaround and also the erratum can't strike if
- * the compare interrupt isn't being used as the clock source device.
- * However for now the implementation of this function doesn't get these
- * fine details right.
- */
-static inline int can_use_mips_counter(unsigned int prid)
-{
- int comp = (prid & PRID_COMP_MASK) != PRID_COMP_LEGACY;
-
- if (__builtin_constant_p(cpu_has_counter) && !cpu_has_counter)
- return 0;
- else if (__builtin_constant_p(cpu_has_mips_r) && cpu_has_mips_r)
- return 1;
- else if (likely(!__builtin_constant_p(cpu_has_mips_r) && comp))
- return 1;
- /* Make sure we don't peek at cpu_data[0].options in the fast path! */
- if (!__builtin_constant_p(cpu_has_counter))
- asm volatile("" : "=m" (cpu_data[0].options));
- if (likely(cpu_has_counter &&
- prid > (PRID_IMP_R4000 | PRID_REV_ENCODE_44(15, 15))))
- return 1;
- else
- return 0;
-}
-
-static inline cycles_t get_cycles(void)
-{
- if (can_use_mips_counter(read_c0_prid()))
- return read_c0_count();
- else
- return 0; /* no usable counter */
-}
-#define get_cycles get_cycles
-
-/*
- * Like get_cycles - but where c0_count is not available we desperately
- * use c0_random in an attempt to get at least a little bit of entropy.
- */
-static inline unsigned long random_get_entropy(void)
-{
- unsigned int c0_random;
-
- if (can_use_mips_counter(read_c0_prid()))
- return read_c0_count();
-
- if (cpu_has_3kex)
- c0_random = (read_c0_random() >> 8) & 0x3f;
- else
- c0_random = read_c0_random() & 0x3f;
- return (random_get_entropy_fallback() << 6) | (0x3f - c0_random);
-}
-#define random_get_entropy random_get_entropy
-
-#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
-
-#endif /* _ASM_TIMEX_H */
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/pm-cps.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/pm-cps.c
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
#include <asm/asm-offsets.h>
#include <asm/cacheflush.h>
#include <asm/cacheops.h>
+#include <asm/cpu-type.h>
#include <asm/idle.h>
#include <asm/mips-cps.h>
#include <asm/mipsmtregs.h>
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/proc.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/proc.c
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
#include <asm/bootinfo.h>
#include <asm/cpu.h>
#include <asm/cpu-features.h>
+#include <asm/cpu-type.h>
#include <asm/idle.h>
#include <asm/mipsregs.h>
#include <asm/processor.h>
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/relocate.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/relocate.c
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
#include <asm/fw/fw.h>
#include <asm/sections.h>
#include <asm/setup.h>
-#include <asm/timex.h>
#include <linux/elf.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/libfdt.h>
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/time.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/time.c
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
/*
* Copyright 2001 MontaVista Software Inc.
* Author: Jun Sun, jsun@mvista.com or jsun@junsun.net
+ * Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2003 by Ralf Baechle
* Copyright (c) 2003, 2004 Maciej W. Rozycki
*
* Common time service routines for MIPS machines.
@@ -21,9 +22,12 @@
#include <linux/cpufreq.h>
#include <linux/delay.h>
+#include <asm/cpu.h>
#include <asm/cpu-features.h>
#include <asm/cpu-type.h>
#include <asm/div64.h>
+#include <asm/mipsregs.h>
+#include <asm/random.h>
#include <asm/time.h>
#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_FREQ
@@ -150,6 +154,55 @@ static __init int cpu_has_mfc0_count_bug
return 0;
}
+
+/*
+ * On R4000/R4400 an erratum exists such that if the cycle counter is
+ * read in the exact moment that it is matching the compare register,
+ * no interrupt will be generated.
+ *
+ * There is a suggested workaround and also the erratum can't strike if
+ * the compare interrupt isn't being used as the clock source device.
+ * However for now the implementation of this function doesn't get these
+ * fine details right.
+ */
+static inline int can_use_mips_counter(unsigned int prid)
+{
+ int comp = (prid & PRID_COMP_MASK) != PRID_COMP_LEGACY;
+
+ if (__builtin_constant_p(cpu_has_counter) && !cpu_has_counter)
+ return 0;
+ else if (__builtin_constant_p(cpu_has_mips_r) && cpu_has_mips_r)
+ return 1;
+ else if (likely(!__builtin_constant_p(cpu_has_mips_r) && comp))
+ return 1;
+ /* Make sure we don't peek at cpu_data[0].options in the fast path! */
+ if (!__builtin_constant_p(cpu_has_counter))
+ asm volatile("" : "=m" (cpu_data[0].options));
+ if (likely(cpu_has_counter &&
+ prid > (PRID_IMP_R4000 | PRID_REV_ENCODE_44(15, 15))))
+ return 1;
+ else
+ return 0;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Like get_cycles - but where c0_count is not available we desperately
+ * use c0_random in an attempt to get at least a little bit of entropy.
+ */
+unsigned long random_get_entropy(void)
+{
+ unsigned int c0_random;
+
+ if (can_use_mips_counter(read_c0_prid()))
+ return read_c0_count();
+
+ if (cpu_has_3kex)
+ c0_random = (read_c0_random() >> 8) & 0x3f;
+ else
+ c0_random = read_c0_random() & 0x3f;
+ return (random_get_entropy_fallback() << 6) | (0x3f - c0_random);
+}
+
void __init time_init(void)
{
plat_time_init();
--- a/arch/mips/lib/dump_tlb.c
+++ b/arch/mips/lib/dump_tlb.c
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/mm.h>
+#include <asm/cpu-type.h>
#include <asm/hazards.h>
#include <asm/mipsregs.h>
#include <asm/mmu_context.h>
--- a/arch/mips/mm/cache.c
+++ b/arch/mips/mm/cache.c
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
#include <asm/processor.h>
#include <asm/cpu.h>
#include <asm/cpu-features.h>
+#include <asm/cpu-type.h>
#include <asm/setup.h>
#include <asm/pgtable.h>
^ permalink raw reply
* [patch 29/38] nios2: Select ARCH_HAS_RANDOM_ENTROPY
From: Thomas Gleixner @ 2026-04-10 12:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: LKML
Cc: Dinh Nguyen, Arnd Bergmann, x86, Lu Baolu, iommu,
Michael Grzeschik, netdev, linux-wireless, Herbert Xu,
linux-crypto, Vlastimil Babka, linux-mm, David Woodhouse,
Bernie Thompson, linux-fbdev, Theodore Tso, linux-ext4,
Andrew Morton, Uladzislau Rezki, Marco Elver, Dmitry Vyukov,
kasan-dev, Andrey Ryabinin, Thomas Sailer, linux-hams,
Jason A. Donenfeld, Richard Henderson, linux-alpha, Russell King,
linux-arm-kernel, Catalin Marinas, Huacai Chen, loongarch,
Geert Uytterhoeven, linux-m68k, Jonas Bonn, linux-openrisc,
Helge Deller, linux-parisc, Michael Ellerman, linuxppc-dev,
Paul Walmsley, linux-riscv, Heiko Carstens, linux-s390,
David S. Miller, sparclinux
In-Reply-To: <20260410120044.031381086@kernel.org>
The only remaining non-architecture usage of get_cycles() is to provide
random_get_entropy().
Switch nios2 over to the new scheme of selecting ARCH_HAS_RANDOM_ENTROPY
and providing random_get_entropy() in asm/random.h.
Add 'asm/timex.h' includes to the relevant files, so the global include can
be removed once all architectures are converted over.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Cc: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@kernel.org>
---
arch/nios2/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/nios2/include/asm/random.h | 14 ++++++++++++++
arch/nios2/include/asm/timex.h | 5 +----
arch/nios2/kernel/time.c | 4 ++--
4 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/nios2/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/nios2/Kconfig
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ config NIOS2
select ARCH_HAS_SYNC_DMA_FOR_CPU
select ARCH_HAS_SYNC_DMA_FOR_DEVICE
select ARCH_HAS_DMA_SET_UNCACHED
+ select ARCH_HAS_RANDOM_ENTROPY
select ARCH_NO_SWAP
select COMMON_CLK
select TIMER_OF
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/nios2/include/asm/random.h
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only */
+#ifndef _ASM_NIOS2_RANDOM_H
+#define _ASM_NIOS2_RANDOM_H
+
+#include <asm/timex.h>
+
+static inline unsigned long random_get_entropy(void)
+{
+ unsigned long c = get_cycles();
+
+ return c ? c : random_get_entropy_fallback();
+}
+
+#endif
--- a/arch/nios2/include/asm/timex.h
+++ b/arch/nios2/include/asm/timex.h
@@ -5,9 +5,6 @@
#ifndef _ASM_NIOS2_TIMEX_H
#define _ASM_NIOS2_TIMEX_H
-extern cycles_t get_cycles(void);
-#define get_cycles get_cycles
-
-#define random_get_entropy() (((unsigned long)get_cycles()) ?: random_get_entropy_fallback())
+cycles_t get_cycles(void);
#endif
--- a/arch/nios2/kernel/time.c
+++ b/arch/nios2/kernel/time.c
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
* License. See the file "COPYING" in the main directory of this archive
* for more details.
*/
-
#include <linux/export.h>
#include <linux/interrupt.h>
#include <linux/clockchips.h>
@@ -19,6 +18,8 @@
#include <linux/io.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <asm/timex.h>
+
#define ALTR_TIMER_COMPATIBLE "altr,timer-1.0"
#define ALTERA_TIMER_STATUS_REG 0
@@ -112,7 +113,6 @@ cycles_t get_cycles(void)
return nios2_timer_read(&nios2_cs.cs);
return 0;
}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_cycles);
static void nios2_timer_start(struct nios2_timer *timer)
{
^ permalink raw reply
* [patch 30/38] openrisc: Select ARCH_HAS_RANDOM_ENTROPY
From: Thomas Gleixner @ 2026-04-10 12:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: LKML
Cc: Jonas Bonn, linux-openrisc, Arnd Bergmann, x86, Lu Baolu, iommu,
Michael Grzeschik, netdev, linux-wireless, Herbert Xu,
linux-crypto, Vlastimil Babka, linux-mm, David Woodhouse,
Bernie Thompson, linux-fbdev, Theodore Tso, linux-ext4,
Andrew Morton, Uladzislau Rezki, Marco Elver, Dmitry Vyukov,
kasan-dev, Andrey Ryabinin, Thomas Sailer, linux-hams,
Jason A. Donenfeld, Richard Henderson, linux-alpha, Russell King,
linux-arm-kernel, Catalin Marinas, Huacai Chen, loongarch,
Geert Uytterhoeven, linux-m68k, Dinh Nguyen, Helge Deller,
linux-parisc, Michael Ellerman, linuxppc-dev, Paul Walmsley,
linux-riscv, Heiko Carstens, linux-s390, David S. Miller,
sparclinux
In-Reply-To: <20260410120044.031381086@kernel.org>
The only remaining non-architecture usage of get_cycles() is to provide
random_get_entropy().
Switch openrisc over to the new scheme of selecting ARCH_HAS_RANDOM_ENTROPY
and providing random_get_entropy() in asm/random.h.
Add 'asm/timex.h' includes to the relevant files, so the global include can
be removed once all architectures are converted over.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Cc: linux-openrisc@vger.kernel.org
---
arch/openrisc/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/openrisc/include/asm/random.h | 12 ++++++++++++
arch/openrisc/include/asm/timex.h | 5 -----
arch/openrisc/lib/delay.c | 1 +
4 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/openrisc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/openrisc/Kconfig
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ config OPENRISC
select ARCH_HAS_DELAY_TIMER
select ARCH_HAS_DMA_SET_UNCACHED
select ARCH_HAS_DMA_CLEAR_UNCACHED
+ select ARCH_HAS_RANDOM_ENTROPY
select ARCH_HAS_SYNC_DMA_FOR_DEVICE
select GENERIC_BUILTIN_DTB
select COMMON_CLK
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/openrisc/include/asm/random.h
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later */
+#ifndef __ASM_OPENRISC_RANDOM_H
+#define __ASM_OPENRISC_RANDOM_H
+
+#include <asm/timex.h>
+
+static inline unsigned long random_get_entropy(void)
+{
+ return get_cycles();
+}
+
+#endif
--- a/arch/openrisc/include/asm/timex.h
+++ b/arch/openrisc/include/asm/timex.h
@@ -9,13 +9,9 @@
* OpenRISC implementation:
* Copyright (C) 2010-2011 Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
*/
-
#ifndef __ASM_OPENRISC_TIMEX_H
#define __ASM_OPENRISC_TIMEX_H
-#define get_cycles get_cycles
-
-#include <asm-generic/timex.h>
#include <asm/spr.h>
#include <asm/spr_defs.h>
@@ -23,6 +19,5 @@ static inline cycles_t get_cycles(void)
{
return mfspr(SPR_TTCR);
}
-#define get_cycles get_cycles
#endif
--- a/arch/openrisc/lib/delay.c
+++ b/arch/openrisc/lib/delay.c
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <asm/param.h>
+#include <asm/timex.h>
#include <asm/processor.h>
bool delay_read_timer(unsigned long *timer_value)
^ permalink raw reply
* [patch 31/38] parisc: Select ARCH_HAS_RANDOM_ENTROPY
From: Thomas Gleixner @ 2026-04-10 12:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: LKML
Cc: Helge Deller, linux-parisc, Arnd Bergmann, x86, Lu Baolu, iommu,
Michael Grzeschik, netdev, linux-wireless, Herbert Xu,
linux-crypto, Vlastimil Babka, linux-mm, David Woodhouse,
Bernie Thompson, linux-fbdev, Theodore Tso, linux-ext4,
Andrew Morton, Uladzislau Rezki, Marco Elver, Dmitry Vyukov,
kasan-dev, Andrey Ryabinin, Thomas Sailer, linux-hams,
Jason A. Donenfeld, Richard Henderson, linux-alpha, Russell King,
linux-arm-kernel, Catalin Marinas, Huacai Chen, loongarch,
Geert Uytterhoeven, linux-m68k, Dinh Nguyen, Jonas Bonn,
linux-openrisc, Michael Ellerman, linuxppc-dev, Paul Walmsley,
linux-riscv, Heiko Carstens, linux-s390, David S. Miller,
sparclinux
In-Reply-To: <20260410120044.031381086@kernel.org>
The only remaining non-architecture usage of get_cycles() is to provide
random_get_entropy().
Switch parisc over to the new scheme of selecting ARCH_HAS_RANDOM_ENTROPY
and providing random_get_entropy() in asm/random.h.
Add 'asm/timex.h' includes to the relevant files, so the global include can
be removed once all architectures are converted over.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
---
arch/parisc/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/parisc/include/asm/random.h | 12 ++++++++++++
arch/parisc/include/asm/timex.h | 6 ------
arch/parisc/kernel/processor.c | 1 +
arch/parisc/kernel/time.c | 1 +
5 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/parisc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/parisc/Kconfig
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ config PARISC
select ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX
select ARCH_HAS_UBSAN
select ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL
+ select ARCH_HAS_RANDOM_ENTROPY
select ARCH_NO_SG_CHAIN
select ARCH_SPLIT_ARG64 if !64BIT
select ARCH_SUPPORTS_HUGETLBFS if PA20
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/parisc/include/asm/random.h
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+#ifndef _ASMPARISC_RANDOM_H
+#define _ASMPARISC_RANDOM_H
+
+#include <asm/timex.h>
+
+static inline unsigned long random_get_entropy(void)
+{
+ return get_cycles();
+}
+
+#endif
--- a/arch/parisc/include/asm/timex.h
+++ b/arch/parisc/include/asm/timex.h
@@ -1,9 +1,4 @@
/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
-/*
- * linux/include/asm-parisc/timex.h
- *
- * PARISC architecture timex specifications
- */
#ifndef _ASMPARISC_TIMEX_H
#define _ASMPARISC_TIMEX_H
@@ -13,6 +8,5 @@ static inline cycles_t get_cycles(void)
{
return mfctl(16);
}
-#define get_cycles get_cycles
#endif
--- a/arch/parisc/kernel/processor.c
+++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/processor.c
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
#include <asm/pdcpat.h>
#include <asm/irq.h> /* for struct irq_region */
#include <asm/parisc-device.h>
+#include <asm/timex.h>
struct system_cpuinfo_parisc boot_cpu_data __ro_after_init;
EXPORT_SYMBOL(boot_cpu_data);
--- a/arch/parisc/kernel/time.c
+++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/time.c
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
#include <linux/platform_device.h>
#include <asm/processor.h>
#include <asm/pdcpat.h>
+#include <asm/timex.h>
static u64 cr16_clock_freq;
static unsigned long clocktick;
^ permalink raw reply
* [patch 32/38] powerpc/spufs: Use mftb() directly
From: Thomas Gleixner @ 2026-04-10 12:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: LKML
Cc: Michael Ellerman, linuxppc-dev, Arnd Bergmann, x86, Lu Baolu,
iommu, Michael Grzeschik, netdev, linux-wireless, Herbert Xu,
linux-crypto, Vlastimil Babka, linux-mm, David Woodhouse,
Bernie Thompson, linux-fbdev, Theodore Tso, linux-ext4,
Andrew Morton, Uladzislau Rezki, Marco Elver, Dmitry Vyukov,
kasan-dev, Andrey Ryabinin, Thomas Sailer, linux-hams,
Jason A. Donenfeld, Richard Henderson, linux-alpha, Russell King,
linux-arm-kernel, Catalin Marinas, Huacai Chen, loongarch,
Geert Uytterhoeven, linux-m68k, Dinh Nguyen, Jonas Bonn,
linux-openrisc, Helge Deller, linux-parisc, Paul Walmsley,
linux-riscv, Heiko Carstens, linux-s390, David S. Miller,
sparclinux
In-Reply-To: <20260410120044.031381086@kernel.org>
There is no reason to indirect via get_cycles(), which is about to be
removed.
Use mftb() directly.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
---
arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/switch.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/switch.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/switch.c
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
#include <asm/spu_priv1.h>
#include <asm/spu_csa.h>
#include <asm/mmu_context.h>
+#include <asm/time.h>
#include "spufs.h"
@@ -279,7 +280,7 @@ static inline void save_timebase(struct
* Read PPE Timebase High and Timebase low registers
* and save in CSA. TBD.
*/
- csa->suspend_time = get_cycles();
+ csa->suspend_time = mftb();
}
static inline void remove_other_spu_access(struct spu_state *csa,
@@ -1261,7 +1262,7 @@ static inline void setup_decr(struct spu
* in LSCSA.
*/
if (csa->priv2.mfc_control_RW & MFC_CNTL_DECREMENTER_RUNNING) {
- cycles_t resume_time = get_cycles();
+ cycles_t resume_time = mftb();
cycles_t delta_time = resume_time - csa->suspend_time;
csa->lscsa->decr_status.slot[0] = SPU_DECR_STATUS_RUNNING;
^ permalink raw reply
* [patch 33/38] powerpc: Select ARCH_HAS_RANDOM_ENTROPY
From: Thomas Gleixner @ 2026-04-10 12:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: LKML
Cc: Michael Ellerman, linuxppc-dev, Arnd Bergmann, x86, Lu Baolu,
iommu, Michael Grzeschik, netdev, linux-wireless, Herbert Xu,
linux-crypto, Vlastimil Babka, linux-mm, David Woodhouse,
Bernie Thompson, linux-fbdev, Theodore Tso, linux-ext4,
Andrew Morton, Uladzislau Rezki, Marco Elver, Dmitry Vyukov,
kasan-dev, Andrey Ryabinin, Thomas Sailer, linux-hams,
Jason A. Donenfeld, Richard Henderson, linux-alpha, Russell King,
linux-arm-kernel, Catalin Marinas, Huacai Chen, loongarch,
Geert Uytterhoeven, linux-m68k, Dinh Nguyen, Jonas Bonn,
linux-openrisc, Helge Deller, linux-parisc, Paul Walmsley,
linux-riscv, Heiko Carstens, linux-s390, David S. Miller,
sparclinux
In-Reply-To: <20260410120044.031381086@kernel.org>
The only remaining usage of get_cycles() is to provide random_get_entropy().
Switch powerpc over to the new scheme of selecting ARCH_HAS_RANDOM_ENTROPY
and providing random_get_entropy() in asm/random.h.
Remove asm/timex.h as it has no functionality anymore.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
---
arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/powerpc/include/asm/random.h | 13 +++++++++++++
arch/powerpc/include/asm/timex.h | 21 ---------------------
3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -150,6 +150,7 @@ config PPC
select ARCH_HAS_PREEMPT_LAZY
select ARCH_HAS_PTDUMP
select ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL
+ select ARCH_HAS_RANDOM_ENTROPY
select ARCH_HAS_SCALED_CPUTIME if VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE && PPC_BOOK3S_64
select ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY
select ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX if (PPC_BOOK3S || PPC_8xx) && !HIBERNATION
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/random.h
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+#ifndef _ASM_POWERPC_RANDOM_H
+#define _ASM_POWERPC_RANDOM_H
+
+#include <asm/cputable.h>
+#include <asm/vdso/timebase.h>
+
+static inline unsigned long random_get_entropy(void)
+{
+ return mftb();
+}
+
+#endif /* _ASM_POWERPC_RANDOM_H */
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/timex.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/timex.h
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
-#ifndef _ASM_POWERPC_TIMEX_H
-#define _ASM_POWERPC_TIMEX_H
-
-#ifdef __KERNEL__
-
-/*
- * PowerPC architecture timex specifications
- */
-
-#include <asm/cputable.h>
-#include <asm/vdso/timebase.h>
-
-ostatic inline cycles_t get_cycles(void)
-{
- return mftb();
-}
-#define get_cycles get_cycles
-
-#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
-#endif /* _ASM_POWERPC_TIMEX_H */
^ permalink raw reply
* [patch 34/38] riscv: Select ARCH_HAS_RANDOM_ENTROPY
From: Thomas Gleixner @ 2026-04-10 12:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: LKML
Cc: Paul Walmsley, linux-riscv, Arnd Bergmann, x86, Lu Baolu, iommu,
Michael Grzeschik, netdev, linux-wireless, Herbert Xu,
linux-crypto, Vlastimil Babka, linux-mm, David Woodhouse,
Bernie Thompson, linux-fbdev, Theodore Tso, linux-ext4,
Andrew Morton, Uladzislau Rezki, Marco Elver, Dmitry Vyukov,
kasan-dev, Andrey Ryabinin, Thomas Sailer, linux-hams,
Jason A. Donenfeld, Richard Henderson, linux-alpha, Russell King,
linux-arm-kernel, Catalin Marinas, Huacai Chen, loongarch,
Geert Uytterhoeven, linux-m68k, Dinh Nguyen, Jonas Bonn,
linux-openrisc, Helge Deller, linux-parisc, Michael Ellerman,
linuxppc-dev, Heiko Carstens, linux-s390, David S. Miller,
sparclinux
In-Reply-To: <20260410120044.031381086@kernel.org>
The only remaining non-architecture usage of get_cycles() is to provide
random_get_entropy().
Switch riscv over to the new scheme of selecting ARCH_HAS_RANDOM_ENTROPY
and providing random_get_entropy() in asm/random.h.
Add 'asm/timex.h' includes to the relevant files, so the global include can
be removed once all architectures are converted over.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
---
arch/riscv/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/riscv/include/asm/random.h | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
arch/riscv/include/asm/timex.h | 13 -------------
arch/riscv/kernel/unaligned_access_speed.c | 1 +
arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_timer.c | 1 +
arch/riscv/lib/delay.c | 1 +
6 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ config RISCV
select ARCH_HAS_PREPARE_SYNC_CORE_CMD
select ARCH_HAS_PTDUMP if MMU
select ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL
+ select ARCH_HAS_RANDOM_ENTROPY
select ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP if MMU
select ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY if MMU
select ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX if MMU && !XIP_KERNEL
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/random.h
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only */
+#ifndef _ASM_RISCV_RANDOM_H
+#define _ASM_RISCV_RANDOM_H
+
+#include <asm/timex.h>
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_RISCV_M_MODE
+/*
+ * Much like MIPS, we may not have a viable counter to use at an early point
+ * in the boot process. Unfortunately we don't have a fallback, so instead
+ * invoke the fallback function.
+ */
+static inline unsigned long random_get_entropy(void)
+{
+ if (unlikely(clint_time_val == NULL))
+ return random_get_entropy_fallback();
+ return get_cycles();
+}
+#else /* !CONFIG_RISCV_M_MODE */
+static inline unsigned long random_get_entropy(void)
+{
+ return get_cycles();
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_RISCV_M_MODE */
+#endif /* _ASM_RISCV_RANDOM_H */
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/timex.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/timex.h
@@ -31,19 +31,6 @@ static inline u32 get_cycles_hi(void)
#define get_cycles_hi get_cycles_hi
#endif /* CONFIG_64BIT */
-/*
- * Much like MIPS, we may not have a viable counter to use at an early point
- * in the boot process. Unfortunately we don't have a fallback, so instead
- * we just return 0.
- */
-static inline unsigned long random_get_entropy(void)
-{
- if (unlikely(clint_time_val == NULL))
- return random_get_entropy_fallback();
- return get_cycles();
-}
-#define random_get_entropy() random_get_entropy()
-
#else /* CONFIG_RISCV_M_MODE */
static inline cycles_t get_cycles(void)
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/unaligned_access_speed.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/unaligned_access_speed.c
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
#include <linux/types.h>
#include <asm/cpufeature.h>
#include <asm/hwprobe.h>
+#include <asm/timex.h>
#include <asm/vector.h>
#include "copy-unaligned.h"
--- a/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_timer.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_timer.c
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
#include <asm/delay.h>
#include <asm/kvm_nacl.h>
#include <asm/kvm_vcpu_timer.h>
+#include <asm/timex.h>
static u64 kvm_riscv_current_cycles(struct kvm_guest_timer *gt)
{
--- a/arch/riscv/lib/delay.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/lib/delay.c
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
#include <linux/export.h>
#include <asm/processor.h>
+#include <asm/timex.h>
/*
* This is copies from arch/arm/include/asm/delay.h
^ permalink raw reply
* [patch 35/38] s390: Select ARCH_HAS_RANDOM_ENTROPY
From: Thomas Gleixner @ 2026-04-10 12:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: LKML
Cc: Heiko Carstens, linux-s390, Arnd Bergmann, x86, Lu Baolu, iommu,
Michael Grzeschik, netdev, linux-wireless, Herbert Xu,
linux-crypto, Vlastimil Babka, linux-mm, David Woodhouse,
Bernie Thompson, linux-fbdev, Theodore Tso, linux-ext4,
Andrew Morton, Uladzislau Rezki, Marco Elver, Dmitry Vyukov,
kasan-dev, Andrey Ryabinin, Thomas Sailer, linux-hams,
Jason A. Donenfeld, Richard Henderson, linux-alpha, Russell King,
linux-arm-kernel, Catalin Marinas, Huacai Chen, loongarch,
Geert Uytterhoeven, linux-m68k, Dinh Nguyen, Jonas Bonn,
linux-openrisc, Helge Deller, linux-parisc, Michael Ellerman,
linuxppc-dev, Paul Walmsley, linux-riscv, David S. Miller,
sparclinux
In-Reply-To: <20260410120044.031381086@kernel.org>
The only remaining non-architecture usage of get_cycles() is to provide
random_get_entropy().
Switch s390 over to the new scheme of selecting ARCH_HAS_RANDOM_ENTROPY and
providing random_get_entropy() in asm/random.h.
Add 'asm/timex.h' includes to the relevant files, so the global include can
be removed once all architectures are converted over.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
---
arch/s390/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/s390/include/asm/random.h | 12 ++++++++++++
arch/s390/include/asm/timex.h | 6 ------
arch/s390/kernel/time.c | 1 +
arch/s390/kernel/vtime.c | 1 +
5 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/s390/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/s390/Kconfig
@@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ config S390
select ARCH_HAS_PREEMPT_LAZY
select ARCH_HAS_PTDUMP
select ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL
+ select ARCH_HAS_RANDOM_ENTROPY
select ARCH_HAS_SCALED_CPUTIME
select ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP
select ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/s390/include/asm/random.h
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+#ifndef _ASM_S390_RANDOM_H
+#define _ASM_S390_RANDOM_H
+
+#include <asm/timex.h>
+
+static inline unsigned long random_get_entropy(void)
+{
+ return (unsigned long)get_tod_clock_monotonic() >> 2;
+}
+
+#endif
--- a/arch/s390/include/asm/timex.h
+++ b/arch/s390/include/asm/timex.h
@@ -219,12 +219,6 @@ static inline unsigned long get_tod_cloc
return tod;
}
-static inline cycles_t get_cycles(void)
-{
- return (cycles_t)get_tod_clock_monotonic() >> 2;
-}
-#define get_cycles get_cycles
-
/**
* tod_to_ns - convert a TOD format value to nanoseconds
* @todval: to be converted TOD format value
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/time.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/time.c
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@
#include <asm/irq_regs.h>
#include <asm/vtimer.h>
#include <asm/stp.h>
+#include <asm/timex.h>
#include <asm/cio.h>
#include "entry.h"
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/vtime.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/vtime.c
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
#include <linux/time.h>
#include <asm/alternative.h>
#include <asm/cputime.h>
+#include <asm/timex.h>
#include <asm/vtimer.h>
#include <asm/vtime.h>
#include <asm/cpu_mf.h>
^ permalink raw reply
* [patch 36/38] sparc: Select ARCH_HAS_RANDOM_ENTROPY for SPARC64
From: Thomas Gleixner @ 2026-04-10 12:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: LKML
Cc: David S. Miller, sparclinux, Arnd Bergmann, x86, Lu Baolu, iommu,
Michael Grzeschik, netdev, linux-wireless, Herbert Xu,
linux-crypto, Vlastimil Babka, linux-mm, David Woodhouse,
Bernie Thompson, linux-fbdev, Theodore Tso, linux-ext4,
Andrew Morton, Uladzislau Rezki, Marco Elver, Dmitry Vyukov,
kasan-dev, Andrey Ryabinin, Thomas Sailer, linux-hams,
Jason A. Donenfeld, Richard Henderson, linux-alpha, Russell King,
linux-arm-kernel, Catalin Marinas, Huacai Chen, loongarch,
Geert Uytterhoeven, linux-m68k, Dinh Nguyen, Jonas Bonn,
linux-openrisc, Helge Deller, linux-parisc, Michael Ellerman,
linuxppc-dev, Paul Walmsley, linux-riscv, Heiko Carstens,
linux-s390
In-Reply-To: <20260410120044.031381086@kernel.org>
The only remaining usage of get_cycles() is to provide random_get_entropy().
Switch sparc over to the new scheme of selecting ARCH_HAS_RANDOM_ENTROPY
and providing random_get_entropy() in asm/random.h.
Remove asm/timex*.h as it has no functionality anymore.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
---
arch/sparc/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/sparc/include/asm/random.h | 15 +++++++++++++++
arch/sparc/include/asm/timex.h | 9 ---------
arch/sparc/include/asm/timex_64.h | 15 ---------------
arch/sparc/kernel/pcic.c | 1 -
arch/sparc/kernel/time_32.c | 1 -
arch/sparc/vdso/vclock_gettime.c | 1 -
7 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/sparc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/sparc/Kconfig
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ config SPARC64
def_bool 64BIT
select ALTERNATE_USER_ADDRESS_SPACE
select ARCH_HAS_DELAY_TIMER
+ select ARCH_HAS_RANDOM_ENTROPY
select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
select HAVE_KRETPROBES
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/sparc/include/asm/random.h
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only */
+#ifndef _ASMsparc_RANDOM_H
+#define _ASMsparc_RANDOM_H
+
+#if defined(__sparc__) && defined(__arch64__)
+
+#include <asm/timer.h>
+
+static inline unsigned long random_get_entropy(void)
+{
+ return tick_ops->get_tick();
+}
+
+#endif
+#endif
--- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/timex.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
-#ifndef ___ASM_SPARC_TIMEX_H
-#define ___ASM_SPARC_TIMEX_H
-#if defined(__sparc__) && defined(__arch64__)
-#include <asm/timex_64.h>
-#else
-#include <asm-generic/timex.h>
-#endif
-#endif
--- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/timex_64.h
+++ b/arch/sparc/include/asm/timex_64.h
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
-/*
- * linux/include/asm/timex.h
- *
- * sparc64 architecture timex specifications
- */
-#ifndef _ASMsparc64_TIMEX_H
-#define _ASMsparc64_TIMEX_H
-
-#include <asm/timer.h>
-
-/* Getting on the cycle counter on sparc64. */
-#define get_cycles() tick_ops->get_tick()
-
-#endif
--- a/arch/sparc/kernel/pcic.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/pcic.c
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@
#include <asm/oplib.h>
#include <asm/prom.h>
#include <asm/pcic.h>
-#include <asm/timex.h>
#include <asm/timer.h>
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
#include <asm/irq_regs.h>
--- a/arch/sparc/kernel/time_32.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/time_32.c
@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@
#include <asm/mc146818rtc.h>
#include <asm/oplib.h>
-#include <asm/timex.h>
#include <asm/timer.h>
#include <asm/irq.h>
#include <asm/io.h>
--- a/arch/sparc/vdso/vclock_gettime.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/vdso/vclock_gettime.c
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
#include <linux/string.h>
#include <asm/io.h>
#include <asm/unistd.h>
-#include <asm/timex.h>
#include <asm/clocksource.h>
#include <asm/vvar.h>
^ permalink raw reply
* [patch 37/38] x86: Select ARCH_HAS_RANDOM_ENTROPY
From: Thomas Gleixner @ 2026-04-10 12:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: LKML
Cc: x86, Arnd Bergmann, Lu Baolu, iommu, Michael Grzeschik, netdev,
linux-wireless, Herbert Xu, linux-crypto, Vlastimil Babka,
linux-mm, David Woodhouse, Bernie Thompson, linux-fbdev,
Theodore Tso, linux-ext4, Andrew Morton, Uladzislau Rezki,
Marco Elver, Dmitry Vyukov, kasan-dev, Andrey Ryabinin,
Thomas Sailer, linux-hams, Jason A. Donenfeld, Richard Henderson,
linux-alpha, Russell King, linux-arm-kernel, Catalin Marinas,
Huacai Chen, loongarch, Geert Uytterhoeven, linux-m68k,
Dinh Nguyen, Jonas Bonn, linux-openrisc, Helge Deller,
linux-parisc, Michael Ellerman, linuxppc-dev, Paul Walmsley,
linux-riscv, Heiko Carstens, linux-s390, David S. Miller,
sparclinux
In-Reply-To: <20260410120044.031381086@kernel.org>
The only remaining usage of get_cycles() is to provide random_get_entropy().
Switch x86 over to the new scheme of selecting ARCH_HAS_RANDOM_ENTROPY and
providing random_get_entropy() in asm/random.h.
Remove asm/timex.h as it has no functionality anymore.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
---
arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/x86/include/asm/random.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++
arch/x86/include/asm/timex.h | 17 -----------------
arch/x86/include/asm/tsc.h | 9 ---------
4 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ config X86
select ARCH_HAS_PREEMPT_LAZY
select ARCH_HAS_PTDUMP
select ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL
+ select ARCH_HAS_RANDOM_ENTROPY
select ARCH_HAS_HW_PTE_YOUNG
select ARCH_HAS_NONLEAF_PMD_YOUNG if PGTABLE_LEVELS > 2
select ARCH_HAS_UACCESS_FLUSHCACHE if X86_64
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/random.h
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+#ifndef _ASM_X86_RANDOM_H
+#define _ASM_X86_RANDOM_H
+
+#include <asm/processor.h>
+#include <asm/tsc.h>
+
+static inline unsigned long random_get_entropy(void)
+{
+ if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86_TSC) &&
+ !cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_TSC))
+ return random_get_entropy_fallback();
+ return rdtsc();
+}
+
+#endif /* _ASM_X86_RANDOM_H */
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/timex.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
-#ifndef _ASM_X86_TIMEX_H
-#define _ASM_X86_TIMEX_H
-
-#include <asm/processor.h>
-#include <asm/tsc.h>
-
-static inline unsigned long random_get_entropy(void)
-{
- if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86_TSC) &&
- !cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_TSC))
- return random_get_entropy_fallback();
- return rdtsc();
-}
-#define random_get_entropy random_get_entropy
-
-#endif /* _ASM_X86_TIMEX_H */
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/tsc.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/tsc.h
@@ -72,15 +72,6 @@ extern unsigned int tsc_khz;
extern void disable_TSC(void);
-static inline cycles_t get_cycles(void)
-{
- if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86_TSC) &&
- !cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_TSC))
- return 0;
- return rdtsc();
-}
-#define get_cycles get_cycles
-
extern void tsc_early_init(void);
extern void tsc_init(void);
extern void mark_tsc_unstable(char *reason);
^ permalink raw reply
* [patch 38/38] treewide: Remove asm/timex.h includes from generic code
From: Thomas Gleixner @ 2026-04-10 12:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: LKML
Cc: Arnd Bergmann, x86, Lu Baolu, iommu, Michael Grzeschik, netdev,
linux-wireless, Herbert Xu, linux-crypto, Vlastimil Babka,
linux-mm, David Woodhouse, Bernie Thompson, linux-fbdev,
Theodore Tso, linux-ext4, Andrew Morton, Uladzislau Rezki,
Marco Elver, Dmitry Vyukov, kasan-dev, Andrey Ryabinin,
Thomas Sailer, linux-hams, Jason A. Donenfeld, Richard Henderson,
linux-alpha, Russell King, linux-arm-kernel, Catalin Marinas,
Huacai Chen, loongarch, Geert Uytterhoeven, linux-m68k,
Dinh Nguyen, Jonas Bonn, linux-openrisc, Helge Deller,
linux-parisc, Michael Ellerman, linuxppc-dev, Paul Walmsley,
linux-riscv, Heiko Carstens, linux-s390, David S. Miller,
sparclinux
In-Reply-To: <20260410120044.031381086@kernel.org>
asm/timex.h does not provide any functionality for non-architecture code
anymore.
Remove the asm-generic fallback and all references in include and source
files along with the random_get_entropy() #ifdeffery in timex.h.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
---
include/asm-generic/Kbuild | 1 -
include/asm-generic/timex.h | 15 ---------------
include/linux/random.h | 3 +++
include/linux/timex.h | 26 --------------------------
kernel/time/timer.c | 1 -
lib/interval_tree_test.c | 1 -
lib/rbtree_test.c | 1 -
7 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-)
--- a/include/asm-generic/Kbuild
+++ b/include/asm-generic/Kbuild
@@ -56,7 +56,6 @@ mandatory-y += shmparam.h
mandatory-y += simd.h
mandatory-y += softirq_stack.h
mandatory-y += switch_to.h
-mandatory-y += timex.h
mandatory-y += tlbflush.h
mandatory-y += topology.h
mandatory-y += trace_clock.h
--- a/include/asm-generic/timex.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
-#ifndef __ASM_GENERIC_TIMEX_H
-#define __ASM_GENERIC_TIMEX_H
-
-/*
- * If you have a cycle counter, return the value here.
- */
-#ifndef get_cycles
-static inline cycles_t get_cycles(void)
-{
- return 0;
-}
-#endif
-
-#endif /* __ASM_GENERIC_TIMEX_H */
--- a/include/linux/random.h
+++ b/include/linux/random.h
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+
/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
#ifndef _LINUX_RANDOM_H
@@ -152,6 +153,8 @@ unsigned long random_get_entropy_fallbac
*/
#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_RANDOM_ENTROPY
#include <asm/random.h>
+#else
+#define random_get_entropy() random_get_entropy_fallback()
#endif
#endif /* _LINUX_RANDOM_H */
--- a/include/linux/timex.h
+++ b/include/linux/timex.h
@@ -62,32 +62,6 @@
#include <linux/types.h>
#include <linux/param.h>
-unsigned long random_get_entropy_fallback(void);
-
-#include <asm/timex.h>
-
-#ifndef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_RANDOM_ENTROPY
-#ifndef random_get_entropy
-/*
- * The random_get_entropy() function is used by the /dev/random driver
- * in order to extract entropy via the relative unpredictability of
- * when an interrupt takes places versus a high speed, fine-grained
- * timing source or cycle counter. Since it will be occurred on every
- * single interrupt, it must have a very low cost/overhead.
- *
- * By default we use get_cycles() for this purpose, but individual
- * architectures may override this in their asm/timex.h header file.
- * If a given arch does not have get_cycles(), then we fallback to
- * using random_get_entropy_fallback().
- */
-#ifdef get_cycles
-#define random_get_entropy() ((unsigned long)get_cycles())
-#else
-#define random_get_entropy() random_get_entropy_fallback()
-#endif
-#endif
-#endif
-
/*
* SHIFT_PLL is used as a dampening factor to define how much we
* adjust the frequency correction for a given offset in PLL mode.
--- a/kernel/time/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timer.c
@@ -48,7 +48,6 @@
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
#include <asm/unistd.h>
#include <asm/div64.h>
-#include <asm/timex.h>
#include <asm/io.h>
#include "tick-internal.h"
--- a/lib/interval_tree_test.c
+++ b/lib/interval_tree_test.c
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
#include <linux/interval_tree.h>
#include <linux/prandom.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
-#include <asm/timex.h>
#include <linux/bitmap.h>
#include <linux/maple_tree.h>
--- a/lib/rbtree_test.c
+++ b/lib/rbtree_test.c
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
#include <linux/rbtree_augmented.h>
#include <linux/prandom.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
-#include <asm/timex.h>
#define __param(type, name, init, msg) \
static type name = init; \
^ permalink raw reply
* [PATCH rtw-next] wifi: rtw88: 8814a: add __packed to ensure efuse map size
From: Ping-Ke Shih @ 2026-04-10 13:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-wireless; +Cc: rtl8821cerfe2, lkp
All nested sture/union used by efuse map should be packed. Otherwise, a
arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc compiler might throw errors due to size assertion.
In file included from include/linux/bitfield.h:10,
from include/linux/fortify-string.h:5,
from include/linux/string.h:389,
from include/linux/uuid.h:11,
from include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:14,
from include/linux/usb.h:5,
from drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/rtw8814a.c:5:
>> include/linux/build_bug.h:78:41: error: static assertion failed: "sizeof(struct rtw8814a_efuse) == 512"
#define __static_assert(expr, msg, ...) _Static_assert(expr, msg)
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Fixes: 1a7545784642 ("wifi: rtw88: Add rtw8814a.{c,h}")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202604101721.fsv5XmCX-lkp@intel.com/
Cc: Bitterblue Smith <rtl8821cerfe2@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
---
drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/main.h | 2 +-
drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/rtw8814a.h | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/main.h b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/main.h
index 9c0b746540b0..3cc7c2666c1c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/main.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/main.h
@@ -471,7 +471,7 @@ struct rtw_2g_txpwr_idx {
struct rtw_2g_ns_pwr_idx_diff ht_2s_diff;
struct rtw_2g_ns_pwr_idx_diff ht_3s_diff;
struct rtw_2g_ns_pwr_idx_diff ht_4s_diff;
-};
+} __packed;
struct rtw_5g_ht_1s_pwr_idx_diff {
#ifdef __LITTLE_ENDIAN
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/rtw8814a.h b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/rtw8814a.h
index c57c7c8f915e..a0d9446e2043 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/rtw8814a.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/rtw8814a.h
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ struct rtw8814a_efuse {
union {
struct rtw8814au_efuse u;
struct rtw8814ae_efuse e;
- };
+ } __packed;
u8 res5[0x122]; /* 0xde */
} __packed;
base-commit: 929298742bb5dfacd53ea99cf989cc81210f90a3
--
2.25.1
^ permalink raw reply related
* Re: [patch 19/38] kcsan: Replace get_cycles() usage
From: Marco Elver @ 2026-04-10 13:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: LKML, Dmitry Vyukov, kasan-dev, Arnd Bergmann, x86, Lu Baolu,
iommu, Michael Grzeschik, netdev, linux-wireless, Herbert Xu,
linux-crypto, Vlastimil Babka, linux-mm, David Woodhouse,
Bernie Thompson, linux-fbdev, Theodore Tso, linux-ext4,
Andrew Morton, Uladzislau Rezki, Andrey Ryabinin, Thomas Sailer,
linux-hams, Jason A. Donenfeld, Richard Henderson, linux-alpha,
Russell King, linux-arm-kernel, Catalin Marinas, Huacai Chen,
loongarch, Geert Uytterhoeven, linux-m68k, Dinh Nguyen,
Jonas Bonn, linux-openrisc, Helge Deller, linux-parisc,
Michael Ellerman, linuxppc-dev, Paul Walmsley, linux-riscv,
Heiko Carstens, linux-s390, David S. Miller, sparclinux
In-Reply-To: <20260410120318.862164111@kernel.org>
On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 at 14:20, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> KCSAN uses get_cycles() for two purposes:
>
> 1) Seeding the random state with get_cycles() is a historical leftover.
>
> 2) The microbenchmark uses get_cycles(), which provides an unit less
> counter value and is not guaranteed to be functional on all
> systems/platforms.
>
> Use random_get_entropy() for seeding the random state and ktime_get() which
> is universaly functional and provides at least a comprehensible unit.
>
> This is part of a larger effort to remove get_cycles() usage from
> non-architecture code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
> Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
> Cc: kasan-dev@googlegroups.com
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
> ---
> kernel/kcsan/core.c | 2 +-
> kernel/kcsan/debugfs.c | 8 ++++----
> 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> --- a/kernel/kcsan/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/kcsan/core.c
> @@ -798,7 +798,7 @@ void __init kcsan_init(void)
> BUG_ON(!in_task());
>
> for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
> - per_cpu(kcsan_rand_state, cpu) = (u32)get_cycles();
> + per_cpu(kcsan_rand_state, cpu) = (u32)random_get_entropy();
>
> /*
> * We are in the init task, and no other tasks should be running;
> --- a/kernel/kcsan/debugfs.c
> +++ b/kernel/kcsan/debugfs.c
> @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ static noinline void microbenchmark(unsi
> {
> const struct kcsan_ctx ctx_save = current->kcsan_ctx;
> const bool was_enabled = READ_ONCE(kcsan_enabled);
> - u64 cycles;
> + ktime_t nsecs;
>
> /* We may have been called from an atomic region; reset context. */
> memset(¤t->kcsan_ctx, 0, sizeof(current->kcsan_ctx));
> @@ -70,16 +70,16 @@ static noinline void microbenchmark(unsi
>
> pr_info("%s begin | iters: %lu\n", __func__, iters);
>
> - cycles = get_cycles();
> + nsecs = ktime_get();
> while (iters--) {
> unsigned long addr = iters & ((PAGE_SIZE << 8) - 1);
> int type = !(iters & 0x7f) ? KCSAN_ACCESS_ATOMIC :
> (!(iters & 0xf) ? KCSAN_ACCESS_WRITE : 0);
> __kcsan_check_access((void *)addr, sizeof(long), type);
> }
> - cycles = get_cycles() - cycles;
> + nsecs = ktime_get() - nsecs;
>
> - pr_info("%s end | cycles: %llu\n", __func__, cycles);
> + pr_info("%s end | nsecs: %llu\n", __func__, nsecs);
>
> WRITE_ONCE(kcsan_enabled, was_enabled);
> /* restore context */
>
^ permalink raw reply
* Re: [patch 09/38] iommu/vt-d: Use sched_clock() instead of get_cycles()
From: Baolu Lu @ 2026-04-10 13:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Thomas Gleixner, LKML
Cc: baolu.lu, x86, iommu, Arnd Bergmann, Michael Grzeschik, netdev,
linux-wireless, Herbert Xu, linux-crypto, Vlastimil Babka,
linux-mm, David Woodhouse, Bernie Thompson, linux-fbdev,
Theodore Tso, linux-ext4, Andrew Morton, Uladzislau Rezki,
Marco Elver, Dmitry Vyukov, kasan-dev, Andrey Ryabinin,
Thomas Sailer, linux-hams, Jason A. Donenfeld, Richard Henderson,
linux-alpha, Russell King, linux-arm-kernel, Catalin Marinas,
Huacai Chen, loongarch, Geert Uytterhoeven, linux-m68k,
Dinh Nguyen, Jonas Bonn, linux-openrisc, Helge Deller,
linux-parisc, Michael Ellerman, linuxppc-dev, Paul Walmsley,
linux-riscv, Heiko Carstens, linux-s390, David S. Miller,
sparclinux
In-Reply-To: <20260410120318.187521447@kernel.org>
On 4/10/2026 8:19 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Calculating the timeout from get_cycles() is a historical leftover without
> any functional requirement.
>
> Use ktime_get() instead.
The subject line says "Use sched_clock() ...", but the implementation
actually uses ktime_get(). Is it a typo or anything I misunderstood?
Other parts look good to me,
Reviewed-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner<tglx@kernel.org>
> Cc:x86@kernel.org
> Cc: Lu Baolu<baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
> Cc:iommu@lists.linux.dev
> ---
> arch/x86/include/asm/iommu.h | 3 ---
> drivers/iommu/intel/dmar.c | 4 ++--
> drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.h | 8 ++++++--
> 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
Thanks,
baolu
^ permalink raw reply
* Re: [patch 09/38] iommu/vt-d: Use sched_clock() instead of get_cycles()
From: Thomas Gleixner @ 2026-04-10 15:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Baolu Lu, LKML
Cc: baolu.lu, x86, iommu, Arnd Bergmann, Michael Grzeschik, netdev,
linux-wireless, Herbert Xu, linux-crypto, Vlastimil Babka,
linux-mm, David Woodhouse, Bernie Thompson, linux-fbdev,
Theodore Tso, linux-ext4, Andrew Morton, Uladzislau Rezki,
Marco Elver, Dmitry Vyukov, kasan-dev, Andrey Ryabinin,
Thomas Sailer, linux-hams, Jason A. Donenfeld, Richard Henderson,
linux-alpha, Russell King, linux-arm-kernel, Catalin Marinas,
Huacai Chen, loongarch, Geert Uytterhoeven, linux-m68k,
Dinh Nguyen, Jonas Bonn, linux-openrisc, Helge Deller,
linux-parisc, Michael Ellerman, linuxppc-dev, Paul Walmsley,
linux-riscv, Heiko Carstens, linux-s390, David S. Miller,
sparclinux
In-Reply-To: <9db9515b-08e8-47bd-aced-206ac183195a@linux.intel.com>
On Fri, Apr 10 2026 at 21:45, Baolu Lu wrote:
> On 4/10/2026 8:19 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> Calculating the timeout from get_cycles() is a historical leftover without
>> any functional requirement.
>>
>> Use ktime_get() instead.
>
> The subject line says "Use sched_clock() ...", but the implementation
> actually uses ktime_get(). Is it a typo or anything I misunderstood?
Indeed. Leftover from an earlier version.
Thanks,
tglx
^ permalink raw reply
* Re: [PATCH 04/61] ext4: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
From: Theodore Ts'o @ 2026-04-10 15:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: amd-gfx, apparmor, bpf, ceph-devel, cocci, dm-devel, dri-devel,
gfs2, intel-gfx, intel-wired-lan, iommu, kvm, linux-arm-kernel,
linux-block, linux-bluetooth, linux-btrfs, linux-cifs, linux-clk,
linux-erofs, linux-ext4, linux-fsdevel, linux-gpio, linux-hyperv,
linux-input, linux-kernel, linux-leds, linux-media, linux-mips,
linux-mm, linux-modules, linux-mtd, linux-nfs, linux-omap,
linux-phy, linux-pm, linux-rockchip, linux-s390, linux-scsi,
linux-sctp, linux-security-module, linux-sh, linux-sound,
linux-stm32, linux-trace-kernel, linux-usb, linux-wireless,
netdev, ntfs3, samba-technical, sched-ext, target-devel,
tipc-discussion, v9fs, Philipp Hahn
Cc: Theodore Ts'o, Andreas Dilger
In-Reply-To: <20260310-b4-is_err_or_null-v1-4-bd63b656022d@avm.de>
On Tue, 10 Mar 2026 12:48:30 +0100, Philipp Hahn wrote:
> Prefer using IS_ERR_OR_NULL() over using IS_ERR() and a manual NULL
> check.
>
> Change generated with coccinelle.
Applied, thanks!
[04/61] ext4: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
commit: 1d749e110277ce4103f27bd60d6181e52c0cc1e3
Best regards,
--
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
^ permalink raw reply
* Re: [patch 27/38] m68k: Select ARCH_HAS_RANDOM_ENTROPY
From: Daniel Palmer @ 2026-04-10 15:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: LKML, Geert Uytterhoeven, linux-m68k, Arnd Bergmann, x86,
Lu Baolu, iommu, Michael Grzeschik, netdev, linux-wireless,
Herbert Xu, linux-crypto, Vlastimil Babka, linux-mm,
David Woodhouse, Bernie Thompson, linux-fbdev, Theodore Tso,
linux-ext4, Andrew Morton, Uladzislau Rezki, Marco Elver,
Dmitry Vyukov, kasan-dev, Andrey Ryabinin, Thomas Sailer,
linux-hams, Jason A. Donenfeld, Richard Henderson, linux-alpha,
Russell King, linux-arm-kernel, Catalin Marinas, Huacai Chen,
loongarch, Dinh Nguyen, Jonas Bonn, linux-openrisc, Helge Deller,
linux-parisc, Michael Ellerman, linuxppc-dev, Paul Walmsley,
linux-riscv, Heiko Carstens, linux-s390, David S. Miller,
sparclinux
In-Reply-To: <20260410120319.397219631@kernel.org>
Hi
On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 at 21:39, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> The only remaining usage of get_cycles() is to provide
> random_get_entropy().
>
> Switch m68k over to the new scheme of selecting ARCH_HAS_RANDOM_ENTROPY and
> providing random_get_entropy() in asm/random.h.
I have built and booted this on my Amiga 4000 and it apparently still
works so FWIW:
Tested-by: Daniel Palmer <daniel@thingy.jp>
^ permalink raw reply
* Re: [PATCH rtw-next] wifi: rtw88: 8814a: add __packed to ensure efuse map size
From: Bitterblue Smith @ 2026-04-10 15:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ping-Ke Shih, linux-wireless; +Cc: lkp
In-Reply-To: <20260410131353.1550803-1-pkshih@realtek.com>
On 10/04/2026 16:13, Ping-Ke Shih wrote:
> All nested sture/union used by efuse map should be packed. Otherwise, a
> arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc compiler might throw errors due to size assertion.
>
> In file included from include/linux/bitfield.h:10,
> from include/linux/fortify-string.h:5,
> from include/linux/string.h:389,
> from include/linux/uuid.h:11,
> from include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:14,
> from include/linux/usb.h:5,
> from drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/rtw8814a.c:5:
>>> include/linux/build_bug.h:78:41: error: static assertion failed: "sizeof(struct rtw8814a_efuse) == 512"
> #define __static_assert(expr, msg, ...) _Static_assert(expr, msg)
> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Fixes: 1a7545784642 ("wifi: rtw88: Add rtw8814a.{c,h}")
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202604101721.fsv5XmCX-lkp@intel.com/
> Cc: Bitterblue Smith <rtl8821cerfe2@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
> ---
> drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/main.h | 2 +-
> drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/rtw8814a.h | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
Thank you for taking care of this. Actually, every chip's efuse struct
has a union like this missing __packed, not just RTL8814A. Most of them
don't have a static_assert.
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/main.h b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/main.h
> index 9c0b746540b0..3cc7c2666c1c 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/main.h
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/main.h
> @@ -471,7 +471,7 @@ struct rtw_2g_txpwr_idx {
> struct rtw_2g_ns_pwr_idx_diff ht_2s_diff;
> struct rtw_2g_ns_pwr_idx_diff ht_3s_diff;
> struct rtw_2g_ns_pwr_idx_diff ht_4s_diff;
> -};
> +} __packed;
>
> struct rtw_5g_ht_1s_pwr_idx_diff {
> #ifdef __LITTLE_ENDIAN
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/rtw8814a.h b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/rtw8814a.h
> index c57c7c8f915e..a0d9446e2043 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/rtw8814a.h
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/rtw8814a.h
> @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ struct rtw8814a_efuse {
> union {
> struct rtw8814au_efuse u;
> struct rtw8814ae_efuse e;
> - };
> + } __packed;
> u8 res5[0x122]; /* 0xde */
> } __packed;
>
>
> base-commit: 929298742bb5dfacd53ea99cf989cc81210f90a3
^ permalink raw reply
* Re: [PATCH ath-next v7] wifi: ath12k: avoid dynamic alloc when parsing wmi tb
From: Jeff Johnson @ 2026-04-10 16:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ath12k, Nicolas Escande; +Cc: linux-wireless
In-Reply-To: <20260407095426.3285574-1-nico.escande@gmail.com>
On Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:54:26 +0200, Nicolas Escande wrote:
> On each WMI message received from the hardware, we alloc a temporary array
> of WMI_TAG_MAX entries of type void *. This array is then populated with
> pointers of parsed structs depending on the WMI type, and then freed. This
> alloc can fail when memory pressure in the system is high enough.
>
> Given the fact that it is scheduled in softirq with the system_bh_wq, we
> should not be able to parse more than one WMI message per CPU at any time.
>
> [...]
Applied, thanks!
[1/1] wifi: ath12k: avoid dynamic alloc when parsing wmi tb
commit: 9a4f673eb08d2a7713b258d671b4a45f2a6e68b7
Best regards,
--
Jeff Johnson <jeff.johnson@oss.qualcomm.com>
^ permalink raw reply
page: next (older) | prev (newer) | latest
- recent:[subjects (threaded)|topics (new)|topics (active)]
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox