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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 08:29:30 -0500
Subject: drivers: random: Reduce preempt disabled region
Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rt/linux-rt-devel.git
Git-commit: 34790875ca6664c0bbf6a109dce30e3a47aed47a
Patch-mainline: Queued in subsystem maintainer repository
References: SLE Realtime Extension

No need to keep preemption disabled across the whole function.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@suse.de>
---
 drivers/char/random.c |    3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -1017,8 +1017,6 @@ static void add_timer_randomness(struct
 	} sample;
 	long delta, delta2, delta3;
 
-	preempt_disable();
-
 	sample.jiffies = jiffies;
 	sample.cycles = random_get_entropy();
 	sample.num = num;
@@ -1059,7 +1057,6 @@ static void add_timer_randomness(struct
 		 */
 		credit_entropy_bits(r, min_t(int, fls(delta>>1), 11));
 	}
-	preempt_enable();
 }
 
 void add_input_randomness(unsigned int type, unsigned int code,