On Thu, Jun 20, 2024, Shameerali Kolothum Thodi wrote: > > This is a borderline RFC series to hide KVM's internals from the rest of > > the kernel, where "internals" means data structures, enums, #defines, > > APIs, etc. that are intended to be KVM-only, but are exposed everywhere > > due to kvm_host.h (and other headers) living in the global include paths. > > Hi Sean, > > Just thought of checking with you on this series. Do you have plans to revive this > series? Yep! > The reason I am asking is, on ARM64/KVM side we do have a requirement > to share the KVM VMID with SMMUV3. Please see the RFC I sent out earlier this > year[1]. The series basically provides a way for KVM to pin a VMID and also > associates an iommufd ctx with a struct kvm * to retrieve that VMID. > > As mentioned above, some of the patches in this series(especially 1-4 & 6) that > does the VFIO cleanups and dropping CONFIG_KVM_VFIO looks very straightforward > and useful. I am thinking of including those when I re-spin my RFC series, if > that’s ok. Please don't include them, as the patch they build towards (patch 5) is buggy[*], and I am fairly certain that at least some of the patches will change significantly. I expect to re-start working on the series in ~2 weeks, and am planning on actively pushing the series (i.e. not ignoring it for months on end). [*] https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZWp_q1w01NCZi8KX@xxxxxxxxxx > Please let me know your thoughts. > > [1]. https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/20240209115824.GA2922446@myrica
