From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>,
kvm list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Virtualization <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Standardizing an MSR or other hypercall to get an RNG seed?
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 17:58:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <541B0121.8040503@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrWj+uazLFuy84abnDYCu5D7OYQh9=yNj4gFcoEMO8b+gA@mail.gmail.com>
Il 18/09/2014 17:44, Andy Lutomirski ha scritto:
> Slight correction: QEMU/KVM has optional support for Hyper-V feature
> enumeration. Ideally the RNG seed mechanism would be enabled by
> default, but I don't know whether the QEMU maintainers would be okay
> with enabling the Hyper-V cpuid mechanism in a default configuration.
Some guests cannot find the KVM leaves at 0x40000100, so it wouldn't be
great. And I also don't know what VMware folks would think, but I think
they would be even less thrilled than me.
Note that even if there is no well-defined CPUID leaf, and the main
detection mechanism is #GP, each hypervisor is free to define a CPUID
bit of its own.
However, if it's going to be an architectural (Intel-defined) MSR, I
think the right place for a feature bit is in the low leaves (like
EAX=7, ECX=0).
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-18 15:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 84+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-18 2:50 Standardizing an MSR or other hypercall to get an RNG seed? Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-18 14:40 ` KY Srinivasan
2014-09-18 14:40 ` KY Srinivasan
2014-09-18 14:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-18 15:38 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-18 15:44 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-18 15:58 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2014-09-18 16:36 ` KY Srinivasan
2014-09-18 17:13 ` Nakajima, Jun
2014-09-18 17:17 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-18 17:20 ` Jake Oshins
2014-09-18 17:20 ` Jake Oshins
2014-09-18 17:20 ` KY Srinivasan
2014-09-18 17:42 ` Nakajima, Jun
2014-09-18 18:35 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-18 18:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-18 18:54 ` Niels Ferguson
2014-09-18 19:03 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-18 21:54 ` David Hepkin
2014-09-18 21:54 ` David Hepkin
2014-09-19 6:04 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-18 18:58 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-18 19:07 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-18 21:21 ` Nakajima, Jun
2014-09-18 21:35 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-18 21:46 ` David Hepkin
2014-09-18 21:46 ` David Hepkin
2014-09-18 21:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-18 22:07 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-19 0:49 ` Nakajima, Jun
2014-09-19 1:03 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-19 1:28 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-19 1:28 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-19 16:14 ` Nakajima, Jun
2014-09-19 16:22 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-19 16:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-19 17:21 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-19 17:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-19 17:39 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-19 22:05 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-09-19 22:06 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-19 22:57 ` Nakajima, Jun
2014-09-19 22:57 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-09-19 23:12 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-19 23:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-19 23:35 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-09-19 23:41 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-20 0:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-19 23:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-19 0:49 ` Nakajima, Jun
2014-09-18 22:00 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-18 22:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-19 16:37 ` Gleb Natapov
2014-09-19 16:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-19 16:53 ` Gleb Natapov
2014-09-19 17:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-19 17:15 ` Gleb Natapov
2014-09-19 17:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-19 17:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-19 17:49 ` Gleb Natapov
2014-09-19 18:02 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-19 18:12 ` Gleb Natapov
2014-09-19 18:20 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-19 20:53 ` Gleb Natapov
2014-09-22 4:11 ` Alok Kataria
2014-09-19 17:21 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-19 17:59 ` Gleb Natapov
2014-09-19 17:59 ` Gleb Natapov
2014-09-18 18:56 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-18 17:20 ` KY Srinivasan
2014-09-18 17:17 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-18 16:36 ` KY Srinivasan
2014-09-19 18:30 ` Christopher Covington
2014-09-19 18:42 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-19 20:21 ` Nadav Amit
2014-09-19 20:21 ` Nadav Amit
2014-09-19 20:46 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-19 21:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-22 13:31 ` Christopher Covington
2014-09-22 14:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-22 14:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-22 23:01 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-21 12:39 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-22 13:33 ` Christopher Covington
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