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Miller\" ,\n sparclinux@vger.kernel.org","Subject":"[patch 37/38] x86: Select ARCH_HAS_RANDOM_ENTROPY","References":"<20260410120044.031381086@kernel.org>","X-Mailing-List":"linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org","List-Id":"","List-Help":"","List-Owner":"","List-Post":"","List-Archive":",\n ","List-Subscribe":",\n ,\n ","List-Unsubscribe":"","Precedence":"list","MIME-Version":"1.0","Content-Type":"text/plain; charset=UTF-8","X-Spam-Status":"No, score=-0.2 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED,\n\tDKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,DKIM_VALID_EF,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS\n\tautolearn=disabled version=4.0.1 OzLabs 8","X-Spam-Checker-Version":"SpamAssassin 4.0.1 (2024-03-25) on lists.ozlabs.org"},"content":"The only remaining usage of get_cycles() is to provide random_get_entropy().\n\nSwitch x86 over to the new scheme of selecting ARCH_HAS_RANDOM_ENTROPY and\nproviding random_get_entropy() in asm/random.h.\n\nRemove asm/timex.h as it has no functionality anymore.\n\nSigned-off-by: Thomas Gleixner \nCc: x86@kernel.org\n---\n arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 +\n arch/x86/include/asm/random.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++\n arch/x86/include/asm/timex.h | 17 -----------------\n arch/x86/include/asm/tsc.h | 9 ---------\n 4 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)","diff":"--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig\n+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig\n@@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ config X86\n \tselect ARCH_HAS_PREEMPT_LAZY\n \tselect ARCH_HAS_PTDUMP\n \tselect ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL\n+\tselect ARCH_HAS_RANDOM_ENTROPY\n \tselect ARCH_HAS_HW_PTE_YOUNG\n \tselect ARCH_HAS_NONLEAF_PMD_YOUNG\tif PGTABLE_LEVELS > 2\n \tselect ARCH_HAS_UACCESS_FLUSHCACHE\tif X86_64\n--- /dev/null\n+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/random.h\n@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@\n+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */\n+#ifndef _ASM_X86_RANDOM_H\n+#define _ASM_X86_RANDOM_H\n+\n+#include \n+#include \n+\n+static inline unsigned long random_get_entropy(void)\n+{\n+\tif (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86_TSC) &&\n+\t !cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_TSC))\n+\t\treturn random_get_entropy_fallback();\n+\treturn rdtsc();\n+}\n+\n+#endif /* _ASM_X86_RANDOM_H */\n--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/timex.h\n+++ /dev/null\n@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@\n-/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */\n-#ifndef _ASM_X86_TIMEX_H\n-#define _ASM_X86_TIMEX_H\n-\n-#include \n-#include \n-\n-static inline unsigned long random_get_entropy(void)\n-{\n-\tif (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86_TSC) &&\n-\t !cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_TSC))\n-\t\treturn random_get_entropy_fallback();\n-\treturn rdtsc();\n-}\n-#define random_get_entropy random_get_entropy\n-\n-#endif /* _ASM_X86_TIMEX_H */\n--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/tsc.h\n+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/tsc.h\n@@ -72,15 +72,6 @@ extern unsigned int tsc_khz;\n \n extern void disable_TSC(void);\n \n-static inline cycles_t get_cycles(void)\n-{\n-\tif (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86_TSC) &&\n-\t !cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_TSC))\n-\t\treturn 0;\n-\treturn rdtsc();\n-}\n-#define get_cycles get_cycles\n-\n extern void tsc_early_init(void);\n extern void tsc_init(void);\n extern void mark_tsc_unstable(char *reason);\n","prefixes":["37/38"]}