Re: [PATCH v2 05/26] KVM: x86/mmu: Rename shadow MMU functions that deal with shadow pages

David Matlack
2022-03-22T21:35:56Z

On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 1:52 AM Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 12:25:07AM +0000, David Matlack wrote:
> > Rename 3 functions:
> >
> > kvm_mmu_get_page() -> kvm_mmu_get_shadow_page()
> > kvm_mmu_alloc_page() -> kvm_mmu_alloc_shadow_page()
> > kvm_mmu_free_page() -> kvm_mmu_free_shadow_page()
> >
> > This change makes it clear that these functions deal with shadow pages
> > rather than struct pages. Prefer "shadow_page" over the shorter "sp"
> > since these are core routines.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
>
> Acked-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>

What's the reason to use Acked-by for this patch but Reviewed-by for others?

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> Peter Xu
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