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Message-ID: <20220216154809.w27bt6oi3ql4ssip@black.fi.intel.com>
Date:   Wed, 16 Feb 2022 18:48:09 +0300
From:   "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Kai Huang <kai.huang@...el.com>, tglx@...utronix.de,
        mingo@...hat.com, dave.hansen@...el.com, luto@...nel.org,
        peterz@...radead.org, sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@...ux.intel.com,
        aarcange@...hat.com, ak@...ux.intel.com, dan.j.williams@...el.com,
        david@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com, jgross@...e.com,
        jmattson@...gle.com, joro@...tes.org, jpoimboe@...hat.com,
        knsathya@...nel.org, pbonzini@...hat.com, sdeep@...are.com,
        tony.luck@...el.com, vkuznets@...hat.com, wanpengli@...cent.com,
        x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@....com>,
        Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 00/29] TDX Guest: TDX core support

On Wed, Feb 09, 2022 at 09:36:57PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> + SEV guys. You can scroll upthread to read up on the context.
> 
> On Wed, Feb 09, 2022 at 08:07:52PM +0000, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > Don't forget :-)
> > 
> >   arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c - KVM guest stuff
> 
> I knew I'd miss something, ofc.
> 
> > No objection to omitting "coco".  Though what about using "vmx" and "svm" instead
> > of "tdx" and "sev".
> 
> I'm not dead-set on this but ...
> 
> > We lose the more explicit tie to coco, but it would mirror the
> > sub-directories in arch/x86/kvm/
> 
> ... having them too close in naming to the non-coco stuff, might cause
> confusion when looking at:
> 
> arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
> 
> vs
> 
> arch/x86/virt/vmx/vmx.c
> 
> Instead of having
> 
> arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
> 
> and
> 
> arch/x86/virt/tdx/vmx.c
> 
> That second version differs just the right amount. :-)
> 
> > and would avoid a mess in the scenario where tdx
> > or sev needs to share code with the non-coco side, e.g. I'm guessing TDX will need
> > to do VMXON.
> > 
> >   arch/x86/virt/vmx/
> >   	tdx.c
> > 	vmx.c
> > 
> >   arch/x86/virt/svm/
> >   	sev.c
> > 	sev-es.c
> > 	sev-snp.c
> >   	svm.c
> 
> That will probably be two files too: sev.c and svm.c
> 
> But let's see what the other folks think first...

So, any conclusion?

I want to understand where to land TDX guest code and host-guest shared TDX code.
Host-guest shared code doesn't seem to fit anywhere nicely.

Or should I leave it under arch/x86/kernel until decision is made?

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov

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