[PATCH AUTOSEL 6.0 22/34] hwrng: bcm2835 - use hwrng_msleep() instead of cpu_relax()

Sasha Levin
2022-11-01T11:30:19Z

From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>

[ Upstream commit 96cb9d0554457086664d3bd10630b11193d863f1 ]

Rather than busy looping, yield back to the scheduler and sleep for a
bit in the event that there's no data. This should hopefully prevent the
stalls that Mark reported:

<6>[ 3.362859] Freeing initrd memory: 16196K
<3>[ 23.160131] rcu: INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU
<3>[ 23.166057] rcu: 0-....: (2099 ticks this GP) idle=03b4/1/0x40000002 softirq=28/28 fqs=1050
<4>[ 23.174895] (t=2101 jiffies g=-1147 q=2353 ncpus=4)
<4>[ 23.180203] CPU: 0 PID: 49 Comm: hwrng Not tainted 6.0.0 #1
<4>[ 23.186125] Hardware name: BCM2835
<4>[ 23.189837] PC is at bcm2835_rng_read+0x30/0x6c
<4>[ 23.194709] LR is at hwrng_fillfn+0x71/0xf4
<4>[ 23.199218] pc : [<c07ccdc8>] lr : [<c07cb841>] psr: 40000033
<4>[ 23.205840] sp : f093df70 ip : 00000000 fp : 00000000
<4>[ 23.211404] r10: c3c7e800 r9 : 00000000 r8 : c17e6b20
<4>[ 23.216968] r7 : c17e6b64 r6 : c18b0a74 r5 : c07ccd99 r4 : c3f171c0
<4>[ 23.223855] r3 : 000fffff r2 : 00000040 r1 : c3c7e800 r0 : c3f171c0
<4>[ 23.230743] Flags: nZcv IRQs on FIQs on Mode SVC_32 ISA Thumb Segment none
<4>[ 23.238426] Control: 50c5387d Table: 0020406a DAC: 00000051
<4>[ 23.244519] CPU: 0 PID: 49 Comm: hwrng Not tainted 6.0.0 #1

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Y0QJLauamRnCDUef@sirena.org.uk/
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/char/hw_random/bcm2835-rng.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/bcm2835-rng.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/bcm2835-rng.c
index e7dd457e9b22..e98fcac578d6 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hw_random/bcm2835-rng.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/bcm2835-rng.c
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ static int bcm2835_rng_read(struct hwrng *rng, void *buf, size_t max,
while ((rng_readl(priv, RNG_STATUS) >> 24) == 0) {
if (!wait)
return 0;
- cpu_relax();
+ hwrng_msleep(rng, 1000);
}

num_words = rng_readl(priv, RNG_STATUS) >> 24;
--
2.35.1