RE: [PATCH 00/26] KVM: vfio: Hide KVM internals from others

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> Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/26] KVM: vfio: Hide KVM internals from others
> 
> 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.

Ok. Got it. Thanks for taking a look at the KVM pinned VMID series and comments
there.

Shameer




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