"Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > The platform's RNG must be available before random_init() in order to be > useful for initial seeding, which in turn means that it needs to be > called from setup_arch(), rather than from an init call. Fortunately, > each platform already has a setup_arch function pointer, which means > it's easy to wire this up. This commit also removes some noisy log > messages that don't add much. > > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxxxxxx> > Fixes: a4da0d50b2a0 ("powerpc: Implement arch_get_random_long/int() for powernv") > Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/powernv.h | 2 ++ > arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/rng.c | 18 +++++------------- > arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c | 2 ++ > 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) > ... > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c > index 824c3ad7a0fa..a5fcb6796b22 100644 > --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c > +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c > @@ -203,6 +203,8 @@ static void __init pnv_setup_arch(void) > pnv_check_guarded_cores(); > > /* XXX PMCS */ > + > + powernv_rng_init(); > } This crashes on power8 because it's too early to call kzalloc() in rng_create(), and it's also too early to setup the percpu variables in there. I'll rework it and post a v4. cheers