[PATCH v17 03/20] KVM: arm64: Track the type of VM in kvm_arch

[Suzuki K Poulose]

On 09/09/2026 12:28, Fuad Tabba wrote:
> Hi Suzuki,
> 
> On Tue, 8 Sept 2026 at 17:23, Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com> wrote:
>>
>> KVM arm64 has different types of VMs with all the different modes in which the
>> hypervisor code can be run. e.g., VHE, nVHE, PKVM etc. Then there is protected
>> VM and normal VMs with PKVM. We might soon add other types, e.g., Arm CCA Realm.
>> So in an effort to make the handling of these different types of VMs a bit more
>> friendlier to the eyes, add a VM flavor to the kvm_arch and we could then add
> 
> nit: "friendlier"
> 
>> handlers for different operations based on the VM type.
>>
>> Keep the flavor initialisation at the beginning to allow for the detection
>> early enough and fail out on any unsupported requests. (e.g., protected on !PKVM)
> 
> In the commit msg and later in the code (not in the enum though), can
> you please spell pKVM with a lower-case p?

Ack.

> 
> Reviewed-by: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba at linux.dev>

Cheers
Suzuki