On 05/01/2014 03:56 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>
> I think we're comparing:
>
> a) cpuid to detect rdrand *or* emulated rdrand followed by rdrand
>
> to
>
> b) cpuid to detect rdrand or the paravirt seed msr/cpuid call,
> followed by rdrand or the msr or cpuid read
>
> this seems like it barely makes a difference, especially since (a)
> probably requires detecting KVM anyway.
Well, it lets one do something like:
if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_RDRAND) ||
boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_RDRAND_SIMULATED))
rdrand_long(...);
We need the ifs anyway for early code; the arch_*() interfaces are only
available after alternatives run.
-hpa
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