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The reworked version of the random device driver now calls the arch_get_random_* functions on a very high frequency. It does about 100.000 calls to arch_get_random_long for providing 10 MB via /dev/urandom. Each invocation was fetching entropy from the hardware random generator which has a rate limit of about 4 MB/s. As the trng invocation waits until enough entropy is gathered, the random device driver is slowed down dramatically. The s390 true random generator is not designed for such a high rate. The TRNG is more designed to be used together with the arch_get_random_seed_* functions. This is similar to the way how powerpc has implemented their arch random functionality. This patch removes the invocations of the s390 TRNG for arch_get_random_long() and arch_get_random_int() but leaving the invocations for arch_get_random_seed_long() and arch_get_random_seed_int(). So the s390 arch random implementation now contributes high quality entropy to the kernel random device for reseeding. Signed-off-by: Harald Freudenberger <freude@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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