Re: [PATCHv2 00/29] TDX Guest: TDX core support

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Thu Feb 17 2022 - 10:29:10 EST


On Thu, Feb 17, 2022, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 06:48:09PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > So, any conclusion?
>
> Lemme type the whole thing here again so that we have it all summed up
> in one place - I think we all agree by now:
>
> - confidential computing guest stuff: arch/x86/coco/{sev,tdx}
> - generic host virtualization stuff: arch/x86/virt/
> - coco host stuff: arch/x86/virt/vmx/{tdx,vmx}.c and arch/x86/virt/svm/sev*.c

LGTM

> New stuff goes to the new paths - i.e., TDX guest, host, etc - old stuff
> - AMD SEV/SNP will get moved gradually so that development doesn't get
> disrupted. Or we can do a flag day, right before -rc1 or so, and move it
> all so in one go. We'll see.

FWIW, I don't think there's much existing SEV host virtualization stuff that can
be moved without first extracting and decoupling it from KVM, which will be
non-trivial. I do want to do that some day, but it definitely shouldn't hold up
merging SNP.