Re: [PATCH 0/4] KVM: SVM: Move and split up svm.c

[Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 11:42:21AM -0700, Jim Mattson wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 11:30 AM Sean Christopherson
> <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 10:41:50AM +0100, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > here is a patch-set agains kvm/queue which moves svm.c into its own
> > > subdirectory arch/x86/kvm/svm/ and splits moves parts of it into
> > > separate source files:
> >
> > What are people's thoughts on using "arch/x86/kvm/{amd,intel}" instead of
> > "arch/x86/kvm/{svm,vmx}"?  Maybe this won't be an issue for AMD/SVM, but on
> > the Intel/VMX side, there is stuff in the pipeline that makes using "vmx"
> > for the sub-directory quite awkward.  I wasn't planning on proposing the
> > rename (from vmx->intel) until I could justify _why_, but perhaps it makes
> > sense to bundle all the pain of a reorganizing code into a single kernel
> > version?
> 
> Doesn't VIA have some CPUs that implement VMX?

Yes (and this is why I didn't want broach this subject without being able
to go into details).  On the other hand, the module is kvm_intel...