Re: [PATCH v7 11/17] openrisc: account for 0 starting value in random_get_entropy()

[Jason A. Donenfeld]

Hi Stafford,

On Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 10:19:03AM +0900, Stafford Horne wrote:
> Hi Jason,
> 
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 02:16:48AM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> > As a sanity check, this series makes sure that during early boot, the
> > cycle counter isn't returning all zeros. However, OpenRISC's TTCR timer
> > can be rather slow and starts out as zero during stages of early boot.
> > We know it works, however. So just always add 1 to random_get_entropy()
> > so that it doesn't trigger these checks.
> 
> Just one nit, you might want to qualify that this is related to simulators/qemu:
>  * "However, in simulators OpenRISC's TTCR timer can be rather slow..."

Nice catch, will do.

Jason

> 
> > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Stefan Kristiansson <stefan.kristiansson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Stafford Horne <shorne@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > Changes v6->v7:
> > - Add 1 to cycle counter to account for functional but slow-to-begin
> >   counter on QEMU.
> > 
> >  arch/openrisc/include/asm/timex.h | 3 +++
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/openrisc/include/asm/timex.h b/arch/openrisc/include/asm/timex.h
> > index d52b4e536e3f..a78a5807c927 100644
> > --- a/arch/openrisc/include/asm/timex.h
> > +++ b/arch/openrisc/include/asm/timex.h
> > @@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ static inline cycles_t get_cycles(void)
> >  {
> >  	return mfspr(SPR_TTCR);
> >  }
> > +#define get_cycles get_cycles
> > +
> > +#define random_get_entropy() ((unsigned long)get_cycles() + 1)
> >  
> >  /* This isn't really used any more */
> >  #define CLOCK_TICK_RATE 1000
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Stafford