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 --- Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/virtual') diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt index bc9f6fe44e27..9fa2bf8c3f6f 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt @@ -3573,3 +3573,20 @@ struct { @ar - access register number KVM handlers should exit to userspace with rc = -EREMOTE. + + +8. Other capabilities. +---------------------- + +This section lists capabilities that give information about other +features of the KVM implementation. + +8.1 KVM_CAP_PPC_HWRNG + +Architectures: ppc + +This capability, if KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION indicates that it is +available, means that that the kernel has an implementation of the +H_RANDOM hypercall backed by a hardware random-number generator. +If present, the kernel H_RANDOM handler can be enabled for guest use +with the KVM_CAP_PPC_ENABLE_HCALL capability. -- cgit v1.2.3