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random32.c has two random number generators in it: one that is meant to be used deterministically, with some predefined seed, and one that does the same exact thing as random.c, except does it poorly. The first one has some use cases. The second one no longer does and can be replaced with calls to random.c's proper random number generator. The relatively recent siphash-based bad random32.c code was added in response to concerns that the prior random32.c was too deterministic. Out of fears that random.c was (at the time) too slow, this code was anonymously contributed. Then out of that emerged a kind of shadow entropy gathering system, with its own tentacles throughout various net code, added willy nilly. Stop👏making👏bespoke👏random👏number👏generators👏. Fortunately, recent advances in random.c mean that we can stop playing with this sketchiness, and just use get_random_u32(), which is now fast enough. In micro benchmarks using RDPMC, I'm seeing the same median cycle count between the two functions, with the mean being _slightly_ higher due to batches refilling (which we can optimize further need be). However, when doing *real* benchmarks of the net functions that actually use these random numbers, the mean cycles actually *decreased* slightly (with the median still staying the same), likely because the additional prandom code means icache misses and complexity, whereas random.c is generally already being used by something else nearby. The biggest benefit of this is that there are many users of prandom who probably should be using cryptographically secure random numbers. This makes all of those accidental cases become secure by just flipping a switch. Later on, we can do a tree-wide cleanup to remove the static inline wrapper functions that this commit adds. There are also some low-ish hanging fruits for making this even faster in the future: a get_random_u16() function for use in the networking stack will give a 2x performance boost there, using SIMD for ChaCha20 will let us compute 4 or 8 or 16 blocks of output in parallel, instead of just one, giving us large buffers for cheap, and introducing a get_random_*_bh() function that assumes irqs are already disabled will shave off a few cycles for ordinary calls. These are things we can chip away at down the road. Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> |
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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.