Messages in this thread | | | From | "Catangiu, Adrian Costin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] drivers/virt: vmgenid: add vm generation id driver | Date | Tue, 20 Oct 2020 16:54:24 +0000 |
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Hi all,
On 17/10/2020, 21:09, "Graf (AWS), Alexander" <graf@amazon.de> wrote:
On 17.10.20 15:24, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > > After discussing this offline with Jann a bit, I have a few general > comments on the design of this. > > First, the UUID communicated by the hypervisor should be consumed by > the kernel -- added as another input to the rng -- and then userspace We definitely want a kernel internal notifier as well, yes :).
What would be a generic event trigger mechanism we could use from a kernel module/driver for triggering rng reseed (possibly adding the uuid to the mix as well)?
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