arch/riscv/staging

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 28/05/21 11:24, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> Ok, as it sounds like this isn't going anywhere until the spec group
> gets their work done, you all should just wait as there's no real need
> for any kernel code here either, given that there can't be any hardware
> made until the spec is finished anyway.

There's need for kernel code so that userspace tooling can be built upon 
it.  Not having the header files in Linus's tree makes it harder to 
merge RISC-V KVM support in userspace.  KVM shields userspace from any 
future changes to the hypervisor specification; the userspace API *is* 
based exclusively on ratified specifications and there's no risk of 
breaking the ABI.

I'd like RISC-V KVM to be feature complete when hardware does come out, 
and not having the code upstream makes it harder to both write and 
review new features and optimizations (e.g. finish support for hugetlb 
and transparent huge pages, possibly parallel page faults).  For now you 
can test the code on both simulators and emulators.

Paolo