From f7f510ec195781c857ab76366a3e1c59e1caae42 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rusty Russell Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 15:09:44 -0500 Subject: virtio: An entropy device, as suggested by hpa. Note that by itself, having a "hardware" random generator does very little: you should probably run "rngd" in your guest to feed this into the kernel entropy pool. Included: virtio_rng: dont use vmalloced addresses for virtio If virtio_rng is build as a module, random_data is an address in vmalloc space. As virtio expects guest real addresses, this can cause any kind of funny behaviour, so lets allocate random_data dynamically with kmalloc. Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell --- drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) (limited to 'drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig') diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig b/drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig index 8d6c2089d2a8..efd0b4db7c8e 100644 --- a/drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig @@ -112,3 +112,12 @@ config HW_RANDOM_PASEMI If unsure, say Y. +config HW_RANDOM_VIRTIO + tristate "VirtIO Random Number Generator support" + depends on HW_RANDOM && VIRTIO + ---help--- + This driver provides kernel-side support for the virtual Random Number + Generator hardware. + + To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the + module will be called virtio-rng. If unsure, say N. -- cgit v1.2.3