Re: [PATCH] random: Don't freeze in add_hwgenerator_randomness() if stopping kthread

2020-12-02 Thread Herbert Xu
On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 04:28:07PM +0200, Horia Geantă wrote: > > I wasn't able to find a follow-up on this topic. > Could you advise on what's the proper thing to do going forward? I think someone needs to come up with a patch that does not cause regressions. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu Home

Re: [PATCH] random: Don't freeze in add_hwgenerator_randomness() if stopping kthread

2020-12-02 Thread Horia Geantă
On 11/17/2019 2:57 AM, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 12:01:20AM +0100, Maciej S. Szmigiero wrote: >> >> If a reader (user space) task is frozen then it is no longer waiting >> on this waitqueue - at least if I understand correctly how the freezer >> works for user space tasks, that is