Via came up with a nifty feature on their "Nehemiah" generation of the
C3 CPU: the xstore instruction. If the 'rep' prefix is not present, the
instruction stores 0/1/2/4/8 bytes of random data to a memory location.
This xstore instruction forms the basis of this third patch, which adds
support for the Via RNG to the newly-modular hw_random driver.
Note that since xstore is a new instruction, GNU binutils does not
support it. We must use gcc inline asm to hand-code the machine
language instruction in hexidecimal. Eventually I will get around to
patching GNU binutils to support xstore natively, but even then we won't
want to force users to update their binutils to bleeding-edge-latest, I
don't think...
Review from x86 experts is especially appreciated here, as I am from an
x86 expert myself.
# --------------------------------------------
# 03/03/11 jgarzik@redhat.com 1.1103
# [hw_random] add support for Via Nehemiah RNG ("xstore" insn)
# --------------------------------------------
#
diff -Nru a/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/centaur.c b/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/centaur.c
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/centaur.c Tue Mar 11 21:37:50 2003
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/centaur.c Tue Mar 11 21:37:50 2003
@@ -248,6 +248,36 @@
}
#endif
+static void __init init_c3(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
+{
+ u32 lo, hi;
+
+ /* Test for Centaur Extended Feature Flags presence */
+ if (cpuid_eax(0xC0000000) >= 0xC0000001) {
+ set_bit(X86_FEATURE_CENTAUR_EFF, c->x86_capability);
+
+ /* test for on-chip RNG */
+ if (cpuid_edx(0xC0000001) & (1 << 2))
+ set_bit(X86_FEATURE_XSTORE, c->x86_capability);
+ }
+
+ switch (c->x86_model) {
+ case 6 ... 8: /* Cyrix III family */
+ rdmsr (MSR_VIA_FCR, lo, hi);
+ lo |= (1<<1 | 1<<7); /* Report CX8 & enable PGE */
+ wrmsr (MSR_VIA_FCR, lo, hi);
+
+ set_bit(X86_FEATURE_CX8, c->x86_capability);
+ set_bit(X86_FEATURE_3DNOW, c->x86_capability);
+
+ case 9: /* Nehemiah */
+ default:
+ get_model_name(c);
+ display_cacheinfo(c);
+ break;
+ }
+}
+
static void __init init_centaur(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
{
enum {
@@ -386,21 +416,7 @@
break;
case 6:
- switch (c->x86_model) {
- case 6 ... 8: /* Cyrix III family */
- rdmsr (MSR_VIA_FCR, lo, hi);
- lo |= (1<<1 | 1<<7); /* Report CX8 & enable PGE */
- wrmsr (MSR_VIA_FCR, lo, hi);
-
- set_bit(X86_FEATURE_CX8, c->x86_capability);
- set_bit(X86_FEATURE_3DNOW, c->x86_capability);
-
- case 9: /* Nehemiah */
- default:
- get_model_name(c);
- display_cacheinfo(c);
- break;
- }
+ init_c3(c);
break;
}
}
diff -Nru a/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/proc.c b/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/proc.c
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/proc.c Tue Mar 11 21:37:50 2003
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/proc.c Tue Mar 11 21:37:50 2003
@@ -37,7 +37,8 @@
NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL,
/* Other (Linux-defined) */
- "cxmmx", "k6_mtrr", "cyrix_arr", "centaur_mcr", NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL,
+ "cxmmx", "k6_mtrr", "cyrix_arr", "centaur_mcr",
+ "centaur_eff", "xstore", NULL, NULL,
NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL,
NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL,
NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL,
diff -Nru a/drivers/char/Kconfig b/drivers/char/Kconfig
--- a/drivers/char/Kconfig Tue Mar 11 21:37:50 2003
+++ b/drivers/char/Kconfig Tue Mar 11 21:37:50 2003
@@ -710,7 +710,7 @@
If you're not sure, say N.
config HW_RANDOM
- tristate "Intel/AMD H/W Random Number Generator support"
+ tristate "Intel/AMD/Via H/W Random Number Generator support"
depends on (X86 || IA64) && PCI
---help---
This driver provides kernel-side support for the Random Number
diff -Nru a/drivers/char/hw_random.c b/drivers/char/hw_random.c
--- a/drivers/char/hw_random.c Tue Mar 11 21:37:50 2003
+++ b/drivers/char/hw_random.c Tue Mar 11 21:37:50 2003
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
/*
- Hardware driver for the Intel/AMD Random Number Generators (RNG)
+ Hardware driver for the Intel/AMD/Via Random Number Generators (RNG)
(c) Copyright 2003 Red Hat Inc <jgarzik@redhat.com>
derived from
@@ -35,6 +35,11 @@
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/delay.h>
+#ifdef __i386__
+#include <asm/msr.h>
+#include <asm/cpufeature.h>
+#endif
+
#include <asm/io.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
@@ -88,6 +93,11 @@
static unsigned int amd_data_present (void);
static u32 amd_data_read (void);
+static int __init via_init(struct pci_dev *dev);
+static void __exit via_cleanup(void);
+static unsigned int via_data_present (void);
+static u32 via_data_read (void);
+
struct rng_operations {
int (*init) (struct pci_dev *dev);
void (*cleanup) (void);
@@ -117,6 +127,7 @@
rng_hw_none,
rng_hw_intel,
rng_hw_amd,
+ rng_hw_via,
};
static struct rng_operations rng_vendor_ops[] __initdata = {
@@ -129,6 +140,9 @@
/* rng_hw_amd */
{ amd_init, amd_cleanup, amd_data_present, amd_data_read, 4 },
+
+ /* rng_hw_via */
+ { via_init, via_cleanup, via_data_present, via_data_read, 1 },
};
/*
@@ -332,6 +346,127 @@
/***********************************************************************
*
+ * Via RNG operations
+ *
+ */
+
+enum {
+ VIA_STRFILT_CNT_SHIFT = 16,
+ VIA_STRFILT_FAIL = (1 << 15),
+ VIA_STRFILT_ENABLE = (1 << 14),
+ VIA_RAWBITS_ENABLE = (1 << 13),
+ VIA_RNG_ENABLE = (1 << 6),
+ VIA_XSTORE_CNT_MASK = 0x0F,
+
+ VIA_RNG_CHUNK_8 = 0x00, /* 64 rand bits, 64 stored bits */
+ VIA_RNG_CHUNK_4 = 0x01, /* 32 rand bits, 32 stored bits */
+ VIA_RNG_CHUNK_4_MASK = 0xFFFFFFFF,
+ VIA_RNG_CHUNK_2 = 0x02, /* 16 rand bits, 32 stored bits */
+ VIA_RNG_CHUNK_2_MASK = 0xFFFF,
+ VIA_RNG_CHUNK_1 = 0x03, /* 8 rand bits, 32 stored bits */
+ VIA_RNG_CHUNK_1_MASK = 0xFF,
+};
+
+u32 via_rng_datum;
+
+/*
+ * Investigate using the 'rep' prefix to obtain 32 bits of random data
+ * in one insn. The upside is potentially better performance. The
+ * downside is that the instruction becomes no longer atomic. Due to
+ * this, just like familiar issues with /dev/random itself, the worst
+ * case of a 'rep xstore' could potentially pause a cpu for an
+ * unreasonably long time. In practice, this condition would likely
+ * only occur when the hardware is failing. (or so we hope :))
+ *
+ * Another possible performance boost may come from simply buffering
+ * until we have 4 bytes, thus returning a u32 at a time,
+ * instead of the current u8-at-a-time.
+ */
+
+static inline u32 xstore(u32 *addr, u32 edx_in)
+{
+ u32 eax_out;
+
+ asm(".byte 0x0F,0xA7,0xC0 /* xstore %%edi (addr=%0) */"
+ :"=m"(*addr), "=a"(eax_out)
+ :"D"(addr), "d"(edx_in));
+
+ return eax_out;
+}
+
+static unsigned int via_data_present(void)
+{
+ u32 bytes_out;
+
+ /* We choose the recommended 1-byte-per-instruction RNG rate,
+ * for greater randomness at the expense of speed. Larger
+ * values 2, 4, or 8 bytes-per-instruction yield greater
+ * speed at lesser randomness.
+ *
+ * If you change this to another VIA_CHUNK_n, you must also
+ * change the ->n_bytes values in rng_vendor_ops[] tables.
+ * VIA_CHUNK_8 requires further code changes.
+ *
+ * A copy of MSR_VIA_RNG is placed in eax_out when xstore
+ * completes.
+ */
+ via_rng_datum = 0; /* paranoia, not really necessary */
+ bytes_out = xstore(&via_rng_datum, VIA_RNG_CHUNK_1) & VIA_XSTORE_CNT_MASK;
+ if (bytes_out == 0)
+ return 0;
+
+ return 1;
+}
+
+static u32 via_data_read(void)
+{
+ return via_rng_datum;
+}
+
+static int __init via_init(struct pci_dev *dev)
+{
+ u32 lo, hi, old_lo;
+
+ /* Control the RNG via MSR. Tread lightly and pay very close
+ * close attention to values written, as the reserved fields
+ * are documented to be "undefined and unpredictable"; but it
+ * does not say to write them as zero, so I make a guess that
+ * we restore the values we find in the register.
+ */
+ rdmsr(MSR_VIA_RNG, lo, hi);
+
+ old_lo = lo;
+ lo &= ~(0x7f << VIA_STRFILT_CNT_SHIFT);
+ lo &= ~VIA_XSTORE_CNT_MASK;
+ lo &= ~(VIA_STRFILT_ENABLE | VIA_STRFILT_FAIL | VIA_RAWBITS_ENABLE);
+ lo |= VIA_RNG_ENABLE;
+
+ if (lo != old_lo)
+ wrmsr(MSR_VIA_RNG, lo, hi);
+
+ /* perhaps-unnecessary sanity check; remove after testing if
+ unneeded */
+ rdmsr(MSR_VIA_RNG, lo, hi);
+ if ((lo & VIA_RNG_ENABLE) == 0) {
+ printk(KERN_ERR PFX "cannot enable Via C3 RNG, aborting\n");
+ return -ENODEV;
+ }
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static void __exit via_cleanup(void)
+{
+ u32 lo, hi;
+
+ rdmsr(MSR_VIA_RNG, lo, hi);
+ lo &= ~VIA_RNG_ENABLE;
+ wrmsr(MSR_VIA_RNG, lo, hi);
+}
+
+
+/***********************************************************************
+ *
* /dev/hwrandom character device handling (major 10, minor 183)
*
*/
@@ -470,6 +605,15 @@
goto match;
}
}
+
+#ifdef __i386__
+ /* Probe for Via RNG */
+ if (cpu_has_xstore) {
+ rng_ops = &rng_vendor_ops[rng_hw_via];
+ pdev = NULL;
+ goto match;
+ }
+#endif
DPRINTK ("EXIT, returning -ENODEV\n");
return -ENODEV;
diff -Nru a/include/asm-i386/cpufeature.h b/include/asm-i386/cpufeature.h
--- a/include/asm-i386/cpufeature.h Tue Mar 11 21:37:50 2003
+++ b/include/asm-i386/cpufeature.h Tue Mar 11 21:37:50 2003
@@ -63,6 +63,8 @@
#define X86_FEATURE_K6_MTRR (3*32+ 1) /* AMD K6 nonstandard MTRRs */
#define X86_FEATURE_CYRIX_ARR (3*32+ 2) /* Cyrix ARRs (= MTRRs) */
#define X86_FEATURE_CENTAUR_MCR (3*32+ 3) /* Centaur MCRs (= MTRRs) */
+#define X86_FEATURE_CENTAUR_EFF (3*32+ 4) /* Centaur Extended Feature Flags */
+#define X86_FEATURE_XSTORE (3*32+ 5) /* on-CPU RNG present (xstore insn) */
#define cpu_has(c, bit) test_bit(bit, (c)->x86_capability)
@@ -87,6 +89,7 @@
#define cpu_has_k6_mtrr boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_K6_MTRR)
#define cpu_has_cyrix_arr boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_CYRIX_ARR)
#define cpu_has_centaur_mcr boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_CENTAUR_MCR)
+#define cpu_has_xstore boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_XSTORE)
#endif /* __ASM_I386_CPUFEATURE_H */
diff -Nru a/include/asm-i386/msr.h b/include/asm-i386/msr.h
--- a/include/asm-i386/msr.h Tue Mar 11 21:37:50 2003
+++ b/include/asm-i386/msr.h Tue Mar 11 21:37:50 2003
@@ -218,6 +218,7 @@
/* VIA Cyrix defined MSRs*/
#define MSR_VIA_FCR 0x1107
#define MSR_VIA_LONGHAUL 0x110a
+#define MSR_VIA_RNG 0x110b
#define MSR_VIA_BCR2 0x1147
/* Transmeta defined MSRs */
-
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