Theodore Ts\'o wrote:
> We can do a sleeping allocation from an irq context when CONFIG_NUMA
> is enabled.  Fix this by initializing the NUMA crng instances in a
> workqueue.

Offloading to workqueue context itself would be OK,
but this patch makes linux.git unbootable because

        if (crng == &primary_crng && crng_init < 2) {
                invalidate_batched_entropy();
                numa_crng_init(); // <= Deferred to workqueue context.
                crng_init = 2; // <= Not waiting for workqueue context, and 
oops before console becomes ready. ;-)
                process_random_ready_list();
                wake_up_interruptible(&crng_init_wait);
                pr_notice(\"random: crng init done\\n\");
        }

Please don\'t pretend rng_ready() before workqueue context is processed.

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