The patch titled drivers/char/random.c:write_pool() cond_resched() needed has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was drivers-char-randomcwrite_pool-cond_resched-needed.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: drivers/char/random.c:write_pool() cond_resched() needed From: Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reduce latency for large writes to /dev/[u]random Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Sami Farin <safari-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/char/random.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff -puN drivers/char/random.c~drivers-char-randomcwrite_pool-cond_resched-needed drivers/char/random.c --- a/drivers/char/random.c~drivers-char-randomcwrite_pool-cond_resched-needed +++ a/drivers/char/random.c @@ -1039,6 +1039,7 @@ write_pool(struct entropy_store *r, cons p += bytes; add_entropy_words(r, buf, (bytes + 3) / 4); + cond_resched(); } return 0; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch random-clean-up-checkpatch-complaints.patch random-clean-up-checkpatch-complaints-fix.patch random-consolidate-wakeup-logic.patch random-use-unlocked_ioctl.patch random-reuse-rand_initialize.patch random-improve-variable-naming-clear-extract-buffer.patch random-make-backtracking-attacks-harder.patch random-remove-cacheline-alignment-for-locks.patch random-eliminate-redundant-new_rotate-variable.patch random-remove-some-prefetch-logic.patch random-simplify-add_ptr-logic.patch random-make-mixing-interface-byte-oriented.patch random-simplify-and-rename-credit_entropy_store.patch random-add-async-notification-support-to-dev-random.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html