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

Jim Mattson
2020-03-24T18:42:37Z

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?