Re: [PATCH v2 5/7] virt: geniezone: Add irqchip support for virtual interrupt injection

[Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>]

On Fri, 12 May 2023 08:19:31 +0100,
"Yi-De Wu (吳一德)" <Yi-De.Wu@mediatek.com> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 2023-04-28 at 19:59 +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > External email : Please do not click links or open attachments until
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> > 
> > 
> > On 2023-04-28 11:36, Yi-De Wu wrote:
> > > From: "Yingshiuan Pan" <yingshiuan.pan@mediatek.com>
> > > 
> > > Enable GenieZone to handle virtual interrupt injection request.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Yingshiuan Pan <yingshiuan.pan@mediatek.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Yi-De Wu <yi-de.wu@mediatek.com>
> > > ---
> > >  arch/arm64/geniezone/Makefile       |  2 +-
> > >  arch/arm64/geniezone/gzvm_arch.c    | 24 ++++++--
> > >  arch/arm64/geniezone/gzvm_arch.h    | 11 ++++
> > >  arch/arm64/geniezone/gzvm_irqchip.c | 88
> > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >  drivers/virt/geniezone/gzvm_vm.c    | 75 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >  include/linux/gzvm_drv.h            |  4 ++
> > >  include/uapi/linux/gzvm.h           | 38 ++++++++++++-
> > >  7 files changed, 235 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> > >  create mode 100644 arch/arm64/geniezone/gzvm_irqchip.c
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > > +++ b/arch/arm64/geniezone/gzvm_irqchip.c
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
> > > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> > > +/*
> > > + * Copyright (c) 2023 MediaTek Inc.
> > > + */
> > > +
> > > +#include <linux/irqchip/arm-gic-v3.h>
> > > +#include <kvm/arm_vgic.h>
> > 
> > NAK.
> > 
> > There is no way you can rely on anything from KVM in
> > your own hypervisor code.
> > 
> 
> Same with previous discussion, we'd like to copy or rename the related 
> part from KVM and keep the maintainance at our own if it's ok.

Why do you need *ANY* of the KVM stuff? Please fully enumerate these
dependencies and why you have them.

Directly using KVM stuff for something completely unrelated is not OK,
and will never be.

	M.

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