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SubjectRe: [PATCH] drivers/virt: vmgenid: add vm generation id driver
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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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