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scsi: sd: Contribute to randomness when running rotational device
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Currently a scsi device won't contribute to kernel randomness when it uses
blk-mq. Since we commonly use scsi on rotational device with blk-mq, it make
sense to keep contributing to kernel randomness in these cases. This is
especially important for virtual machines.

commit b5b6e8c ("scsi: virtio_scsi: fix IO hang caused by automatic irq
vector affinity") made all virtio-scsi device to use blk-mq, which does not
contribute to randomness today. So for a virtual machine only having
virtio-scsi disk (which is common), it will simple stop getting randomness
from its disks in today's implementation.

With this patch, if the above VM has rotational virtio-scsi device, then it
can still benefit from the entropy generated from the disk.

Reported-by: Xuewei Zhang <xueweiz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Xuewei Zhang <xueweiz@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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Xuewei Zhang authored and Martin K. Petersen committed Sep 17, 2018
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Expand Up @@ -2959,6 +2959,9 @@ static void sd_read_block_characteristics(struct scsi_disk *sdkp)
if (rot == 1) {
blk_queue_flag_set(QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT, q);
blk_queue_flag_clear(QUEUE_FLAG_ADD_RANDOM, q);
} else {
blk_queue_flag_clear(QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT, q);
blk_queue_flag_set(QUEUE_FLAG_ADD_RANDOM, q);
}

if (sdkp->device->type == TYPE_ZBC) {
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