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powerpc/microwatt: Add support for hardware random number generator
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Microwatt's hardware RNG is accessed using the DARN instruction.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YMwXPHlV/ZleiQUY@thinks.paulus.ozlabs.org
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Paul Mackerras authored and Michael Ellerman committed Jun 21, 2021
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions arch/powerpc/platforms/microwatt/Kconfig
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Expand Up @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ config PPC_MICROWATT
select PPC_ICP_NATIVE
select PPC_NATIVE
select PPC_UDBG_16550
select ARCH_RANDOM
help
This option enables support for FPGA-based Microwatt implementations.

2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion arch/powerpc/platforms/microwatt/Makefile
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obj-y += setup.o
obj-y += setup.o rng.o
48 changes: 48 additions & 0 deletions arch/powerpc/platforms/microwatt/rng.c
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// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
/*
* Derived from arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/rng.c, which is:
* Copyright 2013, Michael Ellerman, IBM Corporation.
*/

#define pr_fmt(fmt) "microwatt-rng: " fmt

#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/smp.h>
#include <asm/archrandom.h>
#include <asm/cputable.h>
#include <asm/machdep.h>

#define DARN_ERR 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFul

int microwatt_get_random_darn(unsigned long *v)
{
unsigned long val;

/* Using DARN with L=1 - 64-bit conditioned random number */
asm volatile(PPC_DARN(%0, 1) : "=r"(val));

if (val == DARN_ERR)
return 0;

*v = val;

return 1;
}

static __init int rng_init(void)
{
unsigned long val;
int i;

for (i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
if (microwatt_get_random_darn(&val)) {
ppc_md.get_random_seed = microwatt_get_random_darn;
return 0;
}
}

pr_warn("Unable to use DARN for get_random_seed()\n");

return -EIO;
}
machine_subsys_initcall(, rng_init);

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