From e928e9cb3601ce240189bfea05b67ebd391c85ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Ellerman Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 20:39:41 +1100 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf --- include/uapi/linux/kvm.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/uapi') 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 { #define KVM_CAP_MIPS_MSA 112 #define KVM_CAP_S390_INJECT_IRQ 113 #define KVM_CAP_S390_IRQ_STATE 114 +#define KVM_CAP_PPC_HWRNG 115 #ifdef KVM_CAP_IRQ_ROUTING -- cgit v1.2.3