These patches are designed to enable improvements to /dev/random for

non-x86 platforms, in particular MIPS and ARM.
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Merge tag 'random_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/random

Pull /dev/random changes from Ted Ts'o:
 "These patches are designed to enable improvements to /dev/random for
  non-x86 platforms, in particular MIPS and ARM"

* tag 'random_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/random:
  random: allow architectures to optionally define random_get_entropy()
  random: run random_int_secret_init() run after all late_initcalls

drivers/char/random.c

@@ -640,7 +640,7 @@ struct timer_rand_state {
  */
 void add_device_randomness(const void *buf, unsigned int size)
 {
-	unsigned long time = get_cycles() ^ jiffies;
+	unsigned long time = random_get_entropy() ^ jiffies;
 
 	mix_pool_bytes(&input_pool, buf, size, NULL);
 	mix_pool_bytes(&input_pool, &time, sizeof(time), NULL);
@@ -677,7 +677,7 @@ static void add_timer_randomness(struct timer_rand_state *state, unsigned num)
 		goto out;
 
 	sample.jiffies = jiffies;
-	sample.cycles = get_cycles();
+	sample.cycles = random_get_entropy();
 	sample.num = num;
 	mix_pool_bytes(&input_pool, &sample, sizeof(sample), NULL);
 
@@ -744,7 +744,7 @@ void add_interrupt_randomness(int irq, int irq_flags)
 	struct fast_pool	*fast_pool = &__get_cpu_var(irq_randomness);
 	struct pt_regs		*regs = get_irq_regs();
 	unsigned long		now = jiffies;
-	__u32			input[4], cycles = get_cycles();
+	__u32			input[4], cycles = random_get_entropy();
 
 	input[0] = cycles ^ jiffies;
 	input[1] = irq;
@@ -1459,12 +1459,11 @@ struct ctl_table random_table[] = {
 
 static u32 random_int_secret[MD5_MESSAGE_BYTES / 4] ____cacheline_aligned;
 
-static int __init random_int_secret_init(void)
+int random_int_secret_init(void)
 {
 	get_random_bytes(random_int_secret, sizeof(random_int_secret));
 	return 0;
 }
-late_initcall(random_int_secret_init);
 
 /*
  * Get a random word for internal kernel use only. Similar to urandom but
@@ -1483,7 +1482,7 @@ unsigned int get_random_int(void)
 
 	hash = get_cpu_var(get_random_int_hash);
 
-	hash[0] += current->pid + jiffies + get_cycles();
+	hash[0] += current->pid + jiffies + random_get_entropy();
 	md5_transform(hash, random_int_secret);
 	ret = hash[0];
 	put_cpu_var(get_random_int_hash);

include/linux/random.h

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ extern void add_interrupt_randomness(int irq, int irq_flags);
 extern void get_random_bytes(void *buf, int nbytes);
 extern void get_random_bytes_arch(void *buf, int nbytes);
 void generate_random_uuid(unsigned char uuid_out[16]);
+extern int random_int_secret_init(void);
 
 #ifndef MODULE
 extern const struct file_operations random_fops, urandom_fops;

include/linux/timex.h

@@ -64,6 +64,20 @@
 
 #include <asm/timex.h>
 
+#ifndef random_get_entropy
+/*
+ * The random_get_entropy() function is used by the /dev/random driver
+ * in order to extract entropy via the relative unpredictability of
+ * when an interrupt takes places versus a high speed, fine-grained
+ * timing source or cycle counter.  Since it will be occurred on every
+ * single interrupt, it must have a very low cost/overhead.
+ *
+ * By default we use get_cycles() for this purpose, but individual
+ * architectures may override this in their asm/timex.h header file.
+ */
+#define random_get_entropy()	get_cycles()
+#endif
+
 /*
  * SHIFT_PLL is used as a dampening factor to define how much we
  * adjust the frequency correction for a given offset in PLL mode.

init/main.c

@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@
 #include <linux/elevator.h>
 #include <linux/sched_clock.h>
 #include <linux/context_tracking.h>
+#include <linux/random.h>
 
 #include <asm/io.h>
 #include <asm/bugs.h>
@@ -780,6 +781,7 @@ static void __init do_basic_setup(void)
 	do_ctors();
 	usermodehelper_enable();
 	do_initcalls();
+	random_int_secret_init();
 }
 
 static void __init do_pre_smp_initcalls(void)