Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH 2/6] target-ppc: Implement darn instruction

[David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>]

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On Tue, Aug 09, 2016 at 02:47:46PM +0530, Nikunj A Dadhania wrote:
> Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> 
> > David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> writes:
> >
> >> [ Unknown signature status ]
> >> On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 07:33:37AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >>> On Sun, 2016-08-07 at 23:06 +0530, Nikunj A Dadhania wrote:
> >>> > +target_ulong helper_darn(uint32_t l)
> >>> > +{
> >>> > +    target_ulong r = UINT64_MAX;
> >>> > +
> >>> > +    if (l <= 2) {
> >>> > +        do {
> >>> > +            r = random() * random();
> >>> > +            r &= l ? UINT64_MAX : UINT32_MAX;
> >>> > +        } while (r == UINT64_MAX);
> >>> > +    }
> >>> > +
> >>> > +    return r;
> >>> > +}
> >>> >  #endif
> >>> 
> >>> Isn't this a bit week ? Look at the implementation of H_RANDOM...
> >>
> >> Indeed, you should be using the rng backend that H_RANDOM, virtio-rng
> >> and the Intel random number instruction all use.
> 
> Can you point me to the intel instruction, I couldn't get rdrand
> implementation.

Ah.. turns out no.  I'd assumed it was there and used the same backend
as virtio-rng and H_RANDOM, but I hadn't actually looked at the code,
and now that I'm trying I can't see it either.

> 
> > I was looking at implementing this, AFAIU, I have to get a new RNG
> > object in the initialization routine. We would need an instance of this
> > per machine. So for pseries I can add in ppc_spapr_init(). I am not sure
> > in case of linux-user where should this be initialized.
> >
> > One other place was init_proc_POWER9(), but that will be per cpu and
> > member of CPUPPCState structure. Advantage is it will work for system
> > emulation and linux-user both and we would not need a lock.
> 
> More issues here. Random backend is not compiled for linux-user, adding
> that wasn't difficult, but then rng_backend_request_entropy() uses
> qemu_set_fd_handler() which is a stub for linux-user
> (stubs/set-fd-handler.c)7


Ah.. yeah, not sure how we'll need to handle that.

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