Re: [PATCH v2] random: do crng pre-init loading in worker rather than irq

[Sebastian Andrzej Siewior]

On 2022-02-28 16:10:38 [+0100], Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> Hi Sebastian,
Hi Jason,

> Ahh, I understand, okay. Yes, I'll change that first paragraph to
> incorporate your wording, as:
> 
> """
> Taking spinlocks from IRQ context is generally problematic for
> PREEMPT_RT. That is, in part, why we take trylocks instead. However, a
> spin_try_lock() is also problematic since another spin_lock() invocation
> can potentially PI-boost the wrong task, as the spin_try_lock() is
> invoked from an IRQ-context, so the task on CPU (random task or idle) is
> not the actual owner.
> """

I didn't expect it that verbose but yes, full ACK from side.
Thank you.

> Jason

Sebastian