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From: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
To: mst@redhat.com, alex.bennee@linaro.org
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, stratos-dev@op-lists.linaro.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 4/5] docs: Add documentation for vhost based RNG implementation
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2021 14:28:41 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210614202842.581640-5-mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210614202842.581640-1-mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>

Add description and example for the vhost-user based RNG implementation.
Tailored on Viresh Kumar's vhost-user-i2c documentation.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
---
 docs/tools/vhost-user-rng.rst | 74 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 74 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 docs/tools/vhost-user-rng.rst

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+QEMU vhost-user-rng - RNG emulation backend
+===========================================
+
+Synopsis
+--------
+
+**vhost-user-rng** [*OPTIONS*]
+
+Description
+-----------
+
+This program is a vhost-user backend that emulates a VirtIO random number
+generator (RNG).  It uses the host's random number generator pool,
+/dev/urandom by default but configurable at will, to satisfy requests from
+guests.
+
+This program is designed to work with QEMU's ``-device
+vhost-user-rng-pci`` but should work with any virtual machine monitor
+(VMM) that supports vhost-user. See the Examples section below.
+
+Options
+-------
+
+.. program:: vhost-user-rng
+
+.. option:: -h, --help
+
+  Print help.
+
+.. option:: -v, --verbose
+
+   Increase verbosity of output
+
+.. option:: -s, --socket-path=PATH
+
+  Listen on vhost-user UNIX domain socket at PATH. Incompatible with --fd.
+
+.. option:: -f, --fd=FDNUM
+
+  Accept connections from vhost-user UNIX domain socket file descriptor FDNUM.
+  The file descriptor must already be listening for connections.
+  Incompatible with --socket-path.
+
+.. option:: -p, --period
+
+  Rate, in milliseconds, at which the RNG hardware can generate random data.
+  Used in conjunction with the --max-bytes option.
+
+.. option:: -m, --max-bytes
+
+  In conjuction with the --period parameter, provides the maximum number of byte
+  per milliseconds a RNG device can generate.
+
+Examples
+--------
+
+The daemon should be started first:
+
+::
+
+  host# vhost-user-rng --socket-path=rng.sock --period=1000 --max-bytes=4096
+
+The QEMU invocation needs to create a chardev socket the device can
+use to communicate as well as share the guests memory over a memfd.
+
+::
+
+  host# qemu-system								\
+      -chardev socket,path=$(PATH)/rng.sock,id=rng0				\
+      -device vhost-user-rng-pci,chardev=rng0					\
+      -m 4096 									\
+      -object memory-backend-file,id=mem,size=4G,mem-path=/dev/shm,share=on	\
+      -numa node,memdev=mem							\
+      ...
-- 
2.25.1



  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-06-14 20:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-14 20:28 [PATCH v2 0/5] virtio: Add vhost-user based RNG Mathieu Poirier
2021-06-14 20:28 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] vhost-user-rng: Add vhost-user-rng implementation Mathieu Poirier
2021-06-14 20:28 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] vhost-user-rng-pci: Add vhost-user-rng-pci implementation Mathieu Poirier
2021-06-14 20:28 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] vhost-user-rng: backend: Add RNG vhost-user daemon implementation Mathieu Poirier
2021-06-14 20:28 ` Mathieu Poirier [this message]
2021-06-14 20:28 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] MAINTAINERS: Add maintainer for vhost-user RNG implementation Mathieu Poirier
2021-07-02 16:27 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] virtio: Add vhost-user based RNG Michael S. Tsirkin
2021-07-06 20:20   ` Mathieu Poirier
2021-07-09  7:02     ` Michael S. Tsirkin

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