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Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:09:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:09:03 -0700 In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 References: <48777f4749fa43d5648085dbb2037aa99c144a88.1780676742.git.tarunsahu@google.com> Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 06/10] kvm: guest_memfd: Add support for freezing and unfreezing mappings From: Sean Christopherson To: Ackerley Tng Cc: Tarun Sahu , Jonathan Corbet , vannapurve@google.com, fvdl@google.com, Pasha Tatashin , Shuah Khan , sagis@google.com, aneesh.kumar@kernel.org, skhawaja@google.com, vipinsh@google.com, Pratyush Yadav , david@redhat.com, dmatlack@google.com, mark.rutland@arm.com, Paolo Bonzini , Mike Rapoport , Alexander Graf , axelrasmussen@google.com, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.9.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20260622_170906_038223_AE3FE5EA X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 11.23 ) X-BeenThere: kexec@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: "kexec" Errors-To: kexec-bounces+kexec=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On Mon, Jun 22, 2026, Ackerley Tng wrote: > Tarun Sahu writes: > > > This patch introduces the freeze on gmem_inode which prevents > > Can't find the reference now, but commit messages should take the > imperative mood and avoid "this patch" [*] >From Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst: Describe your changes in imperative mood, e.g. "make xyzzy do frotz" instead of "[This patch] makes xyzzy do frotz" or "[I] changed xyzzy to do frotz", as if you are giving orders to the codebase to change its behaviour. Documentation/process/maintainer-tip.rst and Documentation/process/maintainer-kvm-x86.rst elaborate more on the preferred style (I do most of the guest_memfd maintenance, and so for all intents and purpose it's bound by KVM x86 "rules").