random: unify cycles_t and jiffies usage and types
random_get_entropy() returns a cycles_t, not an unsigned long, which is sometimes 64 bits on various 32-bit platforms, including x86. Conversely, jiffies is always unsigned long. This commit fixes things to use cycles_t for fields that use random_get_entropy(), named "cycles", and unsigned long for fields that use jiffies, named "now". It's also good to mix in a cycles_t and a jiffies in the same way for both add_device_randomness and add_timer_randomness, rather than using xor in one case. Finally, we unify the order of these volatile reads, always reading the more precise cycles counter, and then jiffies, so that the cycle counter is as close to the event as possible. Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
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