Update to commit 9c9b415c50 [MIPS:
Reimplement get_cycles().]
On systems were for whatever reasons we can't use the cycle counter, fall
back to the c0_random register as an entropy source. It has however a
very small range that makes it suitable for random_get_entropy only and
not get_cycles.
This optimised version compiles to 8 instructions in the fast path even in
the worst case of all the conditions to check being variable (including a
MFC0 move delay slot that is only required for very old processors):
828: 8cf90000 lw t9,0(a3)
828: R_MIPS_LO16 jiffies
82c: 40057800 mfc0 a1,c0_prid
830: 3c0200ff lui v0,0xff
834: 00a21024 and v0,a1,v0
838: 1040007d beqz v0,a30 <add_interrupt_randomness+0x22c>
83c: 3c030000 lui v1,0x0
83c: R_MIPS_HI16 cpu_data
840: 40024800 mfc0 v0,c0_count
844: 00000000 nop
848: 00409021 move s2,v0
84c: 8ce20000 lw v0,0(a3)
84c: R_MIPS_LO16 jiffies
On most targets the sequence will be shorter and on some it will reduce to
a single `MFC0 <reg>,c0_count', as all MIPS architecture (i.e. non-legacy
MIPS) processors require the CP0 Count register to be present.
The only known exception that reports MIPS architecture compliance, but
contrary to that lacks CP0 Count is the Ingenic JZ4740 thingy. For broken
platforms like that this code requires cpu_has_counter to be hardcoded to
0 (i.e. no variable setting is permitted) so as not to penalise all the
other good platforms out there.
The asm barrier is required so that the compiler does not pull any
potentially costly (cold cache!) `cpu_data' variable access into the fast
path.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: John Crispin <blogic@openwrt.org>
Cc: Andrew McGregor <andrewmcgr@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Taht <dave.taht@bufferbloat.net>
Cc: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Cc: Simon Kelley <simon@thekelleys.org.uk>
Cc: Jim Gettys <jg@freedesktop.org>
Cc: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/6702/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
This essentially reverts commit efb9ca08b5
(kernel.org) / 58020a106879a8b372068741c81f0015c9b0b96dbv [[MIPS] Change
get_cycles to always return 0.]
Most users of get_cycles() invoke it as a timing interface. That's why
in modern kernels it was never very much missed for. /dev/random however
uses get_cycles() in the how the jitter in the interrupt timing contains
some useful entropy.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
