On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 04:56:21PM +0100, Richard Smith wrote:
> Within my UML guest kernel, I'm finding that between 5% and
> 10% of reads from /dev/hwrng block, seemingly indefinitely.
> (I've certainly seem reads block for more than 12 hours.)
> All other reads complete in significantly less
Jeff Dike wrote:
> Can you actually dd bits out of the host's /dev/random?
Yes, that was one of the first things I tried, and I've not
seen any problems with that. I also tried a short program
that did:
int main() {
uint32_t data;
int fd = open("/dev/random", O_RDONLY);
if (
Within my UML guest kernel, I'm finding that between 5% and
10% of reads from /dev/hwrng block, seemingly indefinitely.
(I've certainly seem reads block for more than 12 hours.)
All other reads complete in significantly less than 1
second.
I've tried a variety of 2.6.27, .28 and .29 guest UML
