Date:   Mon, 29 Nov 2021 17:35:34 +0000
From:   Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc:     isaku.yamahata@intel.com, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>, erdemaktas@google.com,
        Connor Kuehl <ckuehl@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        kvm@vger.kernel.org, isaku.yamahata@gmail.com,
        Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>,
        Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 14/59] KVM: x86: Add vm_type to differentiate
 legacy VMs from protected VMs
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On Thu, Nov 25, 2021, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 24 2021 at 16:19, isaku yamahata wrote:
> > From: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
> >
> > Add a capability to effectively allow userspace to query what VM types
> > are supported by KVM.
> 
> I really don't see why this has to be named legacy. There are enough
> reasonable use cases which are perfectly fine using the non-encrypted
> muck. Just because there is a new hyped feature does not make anything
> else legacy.

Yeah, this was brought up in the past.  The current proposal is to use
KVM_X86_DEFAULT_VM[1], though at one point the plan was to use a generic
KVM_VM_TYPE_DEFAULT for all architectures[2], not sure what happened to that idea.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/YY6aqVkHNEfEp990@google.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/YQsjQ5aJokV1HZ8N@google.com/