linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 3/6] soc: mediatek: virt: geniezone: Introduce GenieZone hypervisor support

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Message-ID: <7256414b-5553-e025-334f-b8df48f40c31@linaro.org>
Date:   Fri, 14 Apr 2023 10:51:59 +0200
From:   Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>
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        Trilok Soni <quic_tsoni@...cinc.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 3/6] soc: mediatek: virt: geniezone: Introduce
 GenieZone hypervisor support

On 14/04/2023 10:43, Yi-De Wu (吳一德) wrote:
> On Thu, 2023-04-13 at 19:08 +0200, Matthias Brugger wrote:
>> External email : Please do not click links or open attachments until
>> you have verified the sender or the content.
>>
>>
>> On 13/04/2023 14:55, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>>> On 13/04/2023 11:07, Yi-De Wu wrote:
>>>> From: "Yingshiuan Pan" <yingshiuan.pan@...iatek.com>
>>>>
>>>> GenieZone is MediaTek proprietary hypervisor solution, and it is
>>>> running
>>>> in EL2 stand alone as a type-I hypervisor. This patch exports a
>>>> set of
>>>> ioctl interfaces for userspace VMM (e.g., crosvm) to operate
>>>> guest VMs
>>>> lifecycle (creation, running, and destroy) on GenieZone.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Yingshiuan Pan <yingshiuan.pan@...iatek.com>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Yi-De Wu <yi-de.wu@...iatek.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>   arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/gzvm_arch.h       |  79 ++++
>>>>   drivers/soc/mediatek/Kconfig                  |   2 +
>>>>   drivers/soc/mediatek/Makefile                 |   1 +
>>>>   drivers/soc/mediatek/virt/geniezone/Kconfig   |  17 +
>>>
>>> Hypervisor drivers do not go to soc. Stop shoving there everything
>>> from
>>> your downstream. Find appropriate directory, e.g. maybe
>>> drivers/virt.
>>
>> Acked, what is the reason you want to add this to drivers/soc instead
>> of
>> drivers/virt?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Matthias
>>
> Noted. We would take your advice and move it from
> drivers/soc/mediatek/virt to /drivers/virt on next version.
> 
> The reason we put it under our soc/ is that the drver is highly
> propietary for mediatek's product and for aarch64 only. Maybe it's not
> general enough to put in under /drivers/virt.

If virt folks reject the driver, because it is highly proprietary, then
it is not suitable for soc/mediatek either.

Your argument is actually not helping you. It's rather a proof that this
driver might not be suitable for Linux kernel at all.

>
https://android-review.googlesource.com/c/kernel/common/+/2447547/1..2/drivers/virt/geniezone/gzvm.h#b91

I don't see there anything suggesting moving to soc/mediatek. Comment
from Trilok (+Cc) suggests that your code is simply not portable. Write
code which is portable and properly organized.

Best regards,
Krzysztof