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

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Date:   Tue, 24 Mar 2020 11:30:07 -0700
From:   Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>
To:     Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>
Cc:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@....com>,
        Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>,
        Ashish Kalra <Ashish.Kalra@....com>,
        Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@....com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] KVM: SVM: Move and split up svm.c

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?