Re: [PATCH 4.9 75/95] random: set up the NUMA crng instances after the CRNG is fully initialized

From: Theodore Y. Ts'o
Date: Thu Apr 26 2018 - 13:30:09 EST


On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 03:53:58PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> Oh, pull request was already sent. Should be merged shortly.
>
> https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=152472466201090&w=2

More testing, either before or after merging, would be greatly
appreciated. One of the challenges is that there are a lot of systems
out there with different amounts of boot entropy available. So this
pull request was needed to help deal with issues on crazy big machines
(CONFIG_NUMA) and crazy small laptops (old/small chromebooks
repurposed to support Ubuntu and small ARM systems) --- neither of
which I had access to when I was putting together the fixes to the
random driver.

So any feedback before 4.17 gets released would be really helpful!

Thanks!!

- Ted