Re: [PATCH 28/28] random: convert to ->poll_mask

From: Theodore Y. Ts'o
Date: Thu Mar 22 2018 - 09:50:09 EST


On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 08:40:32AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> The big change is that random_read_wait and random_write_wait are merged
> into a single waitqueue that uses keyed wakeups. Because wait_event_*
> doesn't know about that this will lead to occassional spurious wakeups
> in _random_read and add_hwgenerator_randomness, but wait_event_* is
> designed to handle these and were are not in a a hot path there.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>

Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>