Linux kernel
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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.
Jason A. Donenfeld
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commit 534d2eaf upstream. It used to be that mix_interrupt_randomness() would credit 1 bit each time it ran, and so add_interrupt_randomness() would schedule mix() to run every 64 interrupts, a fairly arbitrary number, but nonetheless considered to be a decent enough conservative estimate. Since e3e33fc2 ("random: do not use input pool from hard IRQs"), mix() is now able to credit multiple bits, depending on the number of calls to add(). This was done for reasons separate from this commit, but it has the nice side effect of enabling this patch to schedule mix() less often. Currently the rules are: a) Credit 1 bit for every 64 calls to add(). b) Schedule mix() once a second that add() is called. c) Schedule mix() once every 64 calls to add(). Rules (a) and (c) no longer need to be coupled. It's still important to have _some_ value in (c), so that we don't "over-saturate" the fast pool, but the once per second we ...