From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 17:58:22 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: random: allow architectures to optionally define random_get_entropy()
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random: allow architectures to optionally define random_get_entropy()

commit 61875f30daf60305712e25b209ef41ced2635bad upstream.

Allow architectures which have a disabled get_cycles() function to
provide a random_get_entropy() function which provides a fine-grained,
rapidly changing counter that can be used by the /dev/random driver.

For example, an architecture might have a rapidly changing register
used to control random TLB cache eviction, or DRAM refresh that
doesn't meet the requirements of get_cycles(), but which is good
enough for the needs of the random driver.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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