From: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
To: Michael Roth <michael.roth@amd.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com, berrange@redhat.com, armbru@redhat.com,
pankaj.gupta@amd.com, isaku.yamahata@intel.com,
xiaoyao.li@intel.com, chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com,
Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 05/12] memory: Rename RAM_GUEST_MEMFD to RAM_GUEST_MEMFD_PRIVATE
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:50:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6b309cc5-6525-497a-af5d-74adb5fbaf69@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260908133151.836685-6-michael.roth@amd.com>
On 9/8/26 15:30, Michael Roth wrote:
> From: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
>
> This name is too generic, and can conflict with support for using
> guest-memfd for shared memory. Add a _PRIVATE suffix to show what it
> really means: it is using guest_memfd specifically for private memory;
> whether or not guest_memfd is being used for shared memory is something
> to be configured/determined separately.
>
> This also paves way for in-place guest-memfd, which means we can have a
> ramblock that allocates pages completely from guest-memfd (private or
> shared).
>
> Reviewed-by: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Michael Roth <michael.roth@amd.com>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <michael.roth@amd.com>
> ---
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
--
Cheers,
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-10 8:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-08 13:30 [PATCH v5 00/12] KVM/hostmem: Support init-shared guest-memfd as VM backends Michael Roth
2026-09-08 13:30 ` [PATCH v5 01/12] kvm: Decouple memory attribute check from kvm_guest_memfd_supported Michael Roth
2026-09-10 8:47 ` David Hildenbrand
2026-09-08 13:30 ` [PATCH v5 02/12] kvm: Detect guest-memfd flags supported Michael Roth
2026-09-08 13:30 ` [PATCH v5 03/12] kvm: Provide explicit error for kvm_create_guest_memfd() Michael Roth
2026-09-10 8:48 ` David Hildenbrand
2026-09-08 13:30 ` [PATCH v5 04/12] ramblock: Rename guest_memfd to guest_memfd_private Michael Roth
2026-09-10 8:49 ` David Hildenbrand
2026-09-08 13:30 ` [PATCH v5 05/12] memory: Rename RAM_GUEST_MEMFD to RAM_GUEST_MEMFD_PRIVATE Michael Roth
2026-09-10 8:50 ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
2026-09-08 13:30 ` [PATCH v5 06/12] memory: Rename memory_region_has_guest_memfd() to *_private() Michael Roth
2026-09-10 8:50 ` David Hildenbrand
2026-09-08 13:30 ` [PATCH v5 07/12] hostmem: Rename guest_memfd to guest_memfd_private Michael Roth
2026-09-10 8:51 ` David Hildenbrand
2026-09-08 13:30 ` [PATCH v5 08/12] hostmem: Support fully shared guest memfd to back a VM Michael Roth
2026-09-08 14:03 ` Markus Armbruster
2026-09-10 22:58 ` Michael Roth
2026-09-11 5:56 ` Markus Armbruster
2026-09-11 19:22 ` Michael Roth
2026-09-10 8:54 ` David Hildenbrand
2026-09-10 23:00 ` Michael Roth
2026-09-11 12:06 ` Peter Xu
2026-09-11 16:00 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-08 13:30 ` [PATCH v5 09/12] machine: Rename machine_require_guest_memfd() to *_private() Michael Roth
2026-09-10 8:55 ` David Hildenbrand
2026-09-10 23:08 ` Michael Roth
2026-09-11 10:48 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-11 19:27 ` Michael Roth
2026-09-08 13:31 ` [PATCH v5 10/12] memory: Rename memory_region_init_ram_guest_memfd() " Michael Roth
2026-09-10 8:56 ` David Hildenbrand
2026-09-08 13:31 ` [PATCH v5 11/12] tests/migration-test: Support guest-memfd init shared mem type Michael Roth
2026-09-08 13:31 ` [PATCH v5 12/12] tests/migration-test: Add a precopy test for guest-memfd Michael Roth
2026-09-10 8:45 ` [PATCH v5 00/12] KVM/hostmem: Support init-shared guest-memfd as VM backends David Hildenbrand
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