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Torsten Duwe committed be4000bc464
hwrng: create filler thread This can be viewed as the in-kernel equivalent of hwrngd; like FUSE it is a good thing to have a mechanism in user land, but for some reasons (simplicity, secrecy, integrity, speed) it may be better to have it in kernel space. This patch creates a thread once a hwrng registers, and uses the previously established add_hwgenerator_randomness() to feed its data to the input pool as long as needed. A derating factor is used to bias the entropy estimation and to disable this mechanism entirely when set to zero. Signed-off-by: Torsten Duwe <duwe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>