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author | Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> | 2015-03-20 20:39:41 +1100 |
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committer | Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> | 2015-04-21 15:21:29 +0200 |
commit | e928e9cb3601ce240189bfea05b67ebd391c85ae (patch) | |
tree | d76d6501bea8ffe04a448e5a5660d8926f22b3b4 /arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_ppc.h | |
parent | 99342cf8044420eebdf9297ca03a14cb6a7085a1 (diff) | |
download | linux-e928e9cb3601ce240189bfea05b67ebd391c85ae.tar.bz2 |
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 'arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_ppc.h')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_ppc.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_ppc.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_ppc.h index 46bf652c9169..b8475daad884 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_ppc.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_ppc.h @@ -302,6 +302,8 @@ static inline bool is_kvmppc_hv_enabled(struct kvm *kvm) return kvm->arch.kvm_ops == kvmppc_hv_ops; } +extern int kvmppc_hwrng_present(void); + /* * Cuts out inst bits with ordering according to spec. * That means the leftmost bit is zero. All given bits are included. |