linux/Documentation/virtual/kvm
Michael Ellerman e928e9cb36 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>
2015-04-21 15:21:29 +02:00
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devices KVM: s390: fix get_all_floating_irqs 2015-03-31 21:05:51 +02:00
00-INDEX Documentation/: update 00-INDEX files 2014-02-10 16:01:40 -08:00
api.txt KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add fast real-mode H_RANDOM implementation. 2015-04-21 15:21:29 +02:00
cpuid.txt Documentation/kvm: Update cpuid documentation for steal time and pv eoi 2013-09-24 19:12:16 +02:00
hypercalls.txt KVM: doc: Fix typo in doc/virtual/kvm 2013-12-31 17:24:54 -02:00
locking.txt KVM: doc: Fix typo in doc/virtual/kvm 2013-12-31 17:24:54 -02:00
mmu.txt kvm: fix potentially corrupt mmio cache 2014-09-03 10:03:41 +02:00
msr.txt Documentation: virtual: kvm: correct one bit description in APF case 2014-11-03 12:07:27 +01:00
nested-vmx.txt KVM: nVMX: Documentation 2011-07-12 13:15:22 +03:00
ppc-pv.txt KVM: PPC: Disable NX for old magic page using guests 2014-05-30 14:26:24 +02:00
review-checklist.txt
s390-diag.txt KVM: s390: add documentation for diag 501 2014-04-22 13:24:51 +02:00
timekeeping.txt KVM: doc: Fix typo in doc/virtual/kvm 2013-12-31 17:24:54 -02:00