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random: remove cacheline alignment for locks

Earlier changes greatly reduce the number of times we grab the lock
per output byte, so we shouldn't need this particular hack any more.

Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Matt Mackall 17 jaren geleden
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1 gewijzigde bestanden met toevoegingen van 2 en 2 verwijderingen
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      drivers/char/random.c

+ 2 - 2
drivers/char/random.c

@@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ module_param(debug, bool, 0644);
 
 struct entropy_store;
 struct entropy_store {
-	/* mostly-read data: */
+	/* read-only data: */
 	struct poolinfo *poolinfo;
 	__u32 *pool;
 	const char *name;
@@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ struct entropy_store {
 	struct entropy_store *pull;
 
 	/* read-write data: */
-	spinlock_t lock ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
+	spinlock_t lock;
 	unsigned add_ptr;
 	int entropy_count;
 	int input_rotate;