From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932068AbbFIKSs (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jun 2015 06:18:48 -0400 Received: from helcar.hengli.com.au ([209.40.204.226]:60323 "EHLO helcar.hengli.com.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751372AbbFIKSm (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jun 2015 06:18:42 -0400 Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2015 18:18:30 +0800 From: Herbert Xu To: Stephan Mueller Cc: Ted Tso , andreas.steffen@strongswan.org, sandyinchina@gmail.com, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH 0/3] random: Replace kernel blocking API with callback API Message-ID: <20150609101830.GA10521@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <1758927.bAziGtcHhF@tachyon.chronox.de> <20150609064955.GA8794@gondor.apana.org.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150609064955.GA8794@gondor.apana.org.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi: This series replaces the blocking API for random pool readiness with a callback API. The reason is that the random pool may not become ready for quite some time so we cannot really wait for it in a kernel thread as we quickly run into the 2-minute time limit for detecting lockups. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt