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Subject[PATCH v2 7/7] random: Remove kernel.random.read_wakeup_threshold
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It has no effect any more, so remove it.  We can revert this if
there is some user code that expects to be able to set this sysctl.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
---
drivers/char/random.c | 18 +-----------------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c
index 99fea5cc29a8..2a284f30cac4 100644
--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -369,12 +369,6 @@
#define ENTROPY_SHIFT 3
#define ENTROPY_BITS(r) ((r)->entropy_count >> ENTROPY_SHIFT)

-/*
- * The minimum number of bits of entropy before we wake up a read on
- * /dev/random. Should be enough to do a significant reseed.
- */
-static int random_read_wakeup_bits = 64;
-
/*
* If the entropy count falls under this number of bits, then we
* should wake up processes which are selecting or polling on write
@@ -1982,8 +1976,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(getrandom, char __user *, buf, size_t, count,

#include <linux/sysctl.h>

-static int min_read_thresh = 8, min_write_thresh;
-static int max_read_thresh = OUTPUT_POOL_WORDS * 32;
+static int min_write_thresh;
static int max_write_thresh = INPUT_POOL_WORDS * 32;
static int random_min_urandom_seed = 60;
static char sysctl_bootid[16];
@@ -2058,15 +2051,6 @@ struct ctl_table random_table[] = {
.proc_handler = proc_do_entropy,
.data = &input_pool.entropy_count,
},
- {
- .procname = "read_wakeup_threshold",
- .data = &random_read_wakeup_bits,
- .maxlen = sizeof(int),
- .mode = 0644,
- .proc_handler = proc_dointvec_minmax,
- .extra1 = &min_read_thresh,
- .extra2 = &max_read_thresh,
- },
{
.procname = "write_wakeup_threshold",
.data = &random_write_wakeup_bits,
--
2.21.0
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