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    net: avoid dependency of net_get_random_once on nop patching · 3d440522
    Hannes Frederic Sowa authored
    net_get_random_once depends on the static keys infrastructure to patch up
    the branch to the slow path during boot. This was realized by abusing the
    static keys api and defining a new initializer to not enable the call
    site while still indicating that the branch point should get patched
    up. This was needed to have the fast path considered likely by gcc.
    
    The static key initialization during boot up normally walks through all
    the registered keys and either patches in ideal nops or enables the jump
    site but omitted that step on x86 if ideal nops where already placed at
    static_key branch points. Thus net_get_random_once branches not always
    became active.
    
    This patch switches net_get_random_once to the ordinary static_key
    api and thus places the kernel fast path in the - by gcc considered -
    unlikely path.  Microbenchmarks on Intel and AMD x86-64 showed that
    the unlikely path actually beats the likely path in terms of cycle cost
    and that different nop patterns did not make much difference, thus this
    switch should not be noticeable.
    
    Fixes: a48e4292
    
     ("net: introduce new macro net_get_random_once")
    Reported-by: default avatarTuomas Räsänen <tuomasjjrasanen@tjjr.fi>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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