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Since crng_ready() is only false briefly during initialization and then forever after becomes true, we don't need to evaluate it after, making it a prime candidate for a static branch. One complication, however, is that it changes state in a particular call to credit_init_bits(), which might be made from atomic context, which means we must kick off a workqueue to change the static key. Further complicating things, credit_init_bits() may be called sufficiently early on in system initialization such that system_wq is NULL. Fortunately, there exists the nice function execute_in_process_context(), which will immediately execute the function if !in_interrupt(), and otherwise defer it to a workqueue. During early init, before workqueues are available, in_interrupt() is always false, because interrupts haven't even been enabled yet, which means the function in that case executes immediately. Later on, after workqueues are available, in_interrupt() might be true, but in that case, the work is queued in system_wq and all goes well. Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Sultan Alsawaf <sultan@kerneltoast.com> Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.