[RFC PATCH v2 00/58] KVM: Arm SMMUv3 driver for pKVM

[Mostafa Saleh]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 09:50:53AM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 12:21:01PM +0000, Mostafa Saleh wrote:
> > levels) and can’t be separated from the kernel as that defeats the
> > point of KVM, that means that all hypercalls have to be stable ABI,
> > same for the shared data, shared structs, types...
> 
> Sorry, just trying to understand this sentance, today pkvm has no
> stable ABI right? That is the whole point of building it into the
> kernel?

Yes.

> 
> Things like the CC world are creating stable ABIs for their pkvm like
> environments because they are not built into the kernel? And thus they
> take the pain of that?

Yes, my point is, we can't just separate pKVM as Kevin was mentioning as
they has no ABI and it is tightly coupled with the kernel.


Thanks,
Mostafa

> 
> Jason