Re: [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@xxxxxxxxx> 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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