From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>, Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
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: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 14:39:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <541EC6E5.2020705@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrXq2FJ4c6MeEHCVeY7muV6C1NpuKpmtr+PcnHV2DpF3Zg@mail.gmail.com>
Il 19/09/2014 22:46, Andy Lutomirski ha scritto:
>> >
>> > However, it sounds to me that at least for KVM, it is very easy just to emulate the RDRAND instruction. The hypervisor would report to the guest that RDRAND is supported in CPUID and the emulate the instruction when guest executes it. KVM already traps guest #UD (which would occur if RDRAND executed while it is not supported) - so this scheme wouldn’t introduce additional overhead over RDMSR.
> Because then guest user code will think that rdrand is there and will
> try to use it, resulting in abysmal performance.
KVM could expose a CPUID leaf that says "RDRAND is not there, but if you
execute it the hypervisor will try to do something slow but sane".
Paolo
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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
[not found] ` <2aa00301e9af4826b5781e01709f81e7@BY2PR0301MB0711.namprd03.prod.outlook.com>
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
2014-09-18 16:36 ` KY Srinivasan
[not found] ` <5b9c7dcde3824e49a25f3ee00844b868@BY2PR0301MB0711.namprd03.prod.outlook.com>
2014-09-18 17:13 ` Nakajima, Jun
2014-09-18 17:17 ` Paolo Bonzini
[not found] ` <541B13B8.1020006@redhat.com>
2014-09-18 17:20 ` Jake Oshins
2014-09-18 17:20 ` KY Srinivasan
[not found] ` <b697ef83ae594d8fb34347339dd52dfa@BY2PR0301MB0711.namprd03.prod.outlook.com>
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
[not found] ` <572ba53a2e1e4278823f718a421e2c1d@BY2PR03MB585.namprd03.prod.outlook.com>
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
[not found] ` <0180a8dfcad746a895755c4374853c16@BY2PR03MB585.namprd03.prod.outlook.com>
2014-09-18 21:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-18 22:07 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-19 0:49 ` Nakajima, Jun
[not found] ` <CAL54oT1Q8kABge=t4s5REVWWakboON-6vfszMRkVz=ks_3vRoA@mail.gmail.com>
2014-09-19 1:03 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-19 1:28 ` Andy Lutomirski
[not found] ` <CALCETrWZ1cF23aT82yGfTKS48d2G+_Od7hEkAzDWzDhqpHNVqA@mail.gmail.com>
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 23:29 ` 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
2014-09-18 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 17:49 ` 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 17:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-19 17:21 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-19 17:59 ` Gleb Natapov
2014-09-18 18:56 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-19 18:30 ` Christopher Covington
2014-09-19 18:42 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-19 20:21 ` Nadav Amit
[not found] ` <15C8041A-3488-4693-B329-3A9FE77A0CB9@gmail.com>
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 [this message]
2014-09-22 13:33 ` Christopher Covington
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