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    random: remove early archrandom abstraction · 2c03e16f
    Jason A. Donenfeld authored
    The arch_get_random*_early() abstraction is not completely useful and
    adds complexity, because it's not a given that there will be no calls to
    arch_get_random*() between random_init_early(), which uses
    arch_get_random*_early(), and init_cpu_features(). During that gap,
    crng_reseed() might be called, which uses arch_get_random*(), since it's
    mostly not init code.
    
    Instead we can test whether we're in the early phase in
    arch_get_random*() itself, and in doing so avoid all ambiguity about
    where we are. Fortunately, the only architecture that currently
    implements arch_get_random*_early() also has an alternatives-based cpu
    feature system, one flag of which determines whether the other flags
    have been initialized. This makes it possible to do the early check with
    zero cost once the system is initialized.
    Reviewed-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
    Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
    Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
    Cc: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@linaro.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
    2c03e16f
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