linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v16 00/17] KVM RISC-V Support

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Date:   Thu, 1 Apr 2021 18:54:04 +0530
From:   Anup Patel <anup@...infault.org>
To:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc:     Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@...gle.com>,
        Anup Patel <Anup.Patel@....com>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        Alexander Graf <graf@...zon.com>,
        Atish Patra <Atish.Patra@....com>,
        Alistair Francis <Alistair.Francis@....com>,
        Damien Le Moal <Damien.LeMoal@....com>,
        KVM General <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        kvm-riscv@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-riscv <linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v16 00/17] KVM RISC-V Support

On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 2:52 PM Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> On 30/03/21 07:48, Anup Patel wrote:
> >
> > It seems Andrew does not want to freeze H-extension until we have virtualization
> > aware interrupt controller (such as RISC-V AIA specification) and IOMMU. Lot
> > of us feel that these things can be done independently because RISC-V
> > H-extension already has provisions for external interrupt controller with
> > virtualization support.
>
> Yes, frankly that's pretty ridiculous as it's perfectly possible to
> emulate the interrupt controller in software (and an IOMMU is not needed
> at all if you are okay with emulated or paravirtualized devices---which
> is almost always the case except for partitioning hypervisors).
>
> Palmer, are you okay with merging RISC-V KVM?  Or should we place it in
> drivers/staging/riscv/kvm?
>
> Either way, the best way to do it would be like this:
>
> 1) you apply patch 1 in a topic branch
>
> 2) you merge the topic branch in the risc-v tree
>
> 3) Anup merges the topic branch too and sends me a pull request.

In any case, I will send v17 based on Linux-5.12-rc5 so that people
can at least try KVM RISC-V based on latest kernel.

Regards,
Anup