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author | Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> | 2015-03-20 05:39:41 -0400 |
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committer | Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> | 2015-04-21 09:21:29 -0400 |
commit | e928e9cb3601ce240189bfea05b67ebd391c85ae (patch) | |
tree | d76d6501bea8ffe04a448e5a5660d8926f22b3b4 /include/uapi | |
parent | 99342cf8044420eebdf9297ca03a14cb6a7085a1 (diff) |
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add fast real-mode H_RANDOM implementation.
Some PowerNV systems include a hardware random-number generator.
This HWRNG is present on POWER7+ and POWER8 chips and is capable of
generating one 64-bit random number every microsecond. The random
numbers are produced by sampling a set of 64 unstable high-frequency
oscillators and are almost completely entropic.
PAPR defines an H_RANDOM hypercall which guests can use to obtain one
64-bit random sample from the HWRNG. This adds a real-mode
implementation of the H_RANDOM hypercall. This hypercall was
implemented in real mode because the latency of reading the HWRNG is
generally small compared to the latency of a guest exit and entry for
all the threads in the same virtual core.
Userspace can detect the presence of the HWRNG and the H_RANDOM
implementation by querying the KVM_CAP_PPC_HWRNG capability. The
H_RANDOM hypercall implementation will only be invoked when the guest
does an H_RANDOM hypercall if userspace first enables the in-kernel
H_RANDOM implementation using the KVM_CAP_PPC_ENABLE_HCALL capability.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi')
-rw-r--r-- | include/uapi/linux/kvm.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h b/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h index f574d7be7631..4b60056776d1 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h | |||
@@ -813,6 +813,7 @@ struct kvm_ppc_smmu_info { | |||
813 | #define KVM_CAP_MIPS_MSA 112 | 813 | #define KVM_CAP_MIPS_MSA 112 |
814 | #define KVM_CAP_S390_INJECT_IRQ 113 | 814 | #define KVM_CAP_S390_INJECT_IRQ 113 |
815 | #define KVM_CAP_S390_IRQ_STATE 114 | 815 | #define KVM_CAP_S390_IRQ_STATE 114 |
816 | #define KVM_CAP_PPC_HWRNG 115 | ||
816 | 817 | ||
817 | #ifdef KVM_CAP_IRQ_ROUTING | 818 | #ifdef KVM_CAP_IRQ_ROUTING |
818 | 819 | ||