From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0F72E7D0A6 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2023 19:38:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S230458AbjIUTiO (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Sep 2023 15:38:14 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:54718 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S230306AbjIUThz (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Sep 2023 15:37:55 -0400 Received: from mail-yw1-x114a.google.com (mail-yw1-x114a.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4864:20::114a]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A0FE5EBCFF for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2023 12:10:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-yw1-x114a.google.com with SMTP id 00721157ae682-59beea5ce93so25729547b3.0 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2023 12:10:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20230601; t=1695323438; x=1695928238; darn=vger.kernel.org; h=to:from:subject:message-id:references:mime-version:in-reply-to:date :from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=msCRqftjzvMka6Rl5V/NvDEz768neF2Qswneru1ptF4=; b=ANIsopKH6FB/YfeeiHhknjvBJ5XAITWb1M/gbs+yBeC/ao6mEHXNiCijAVIw3AUBEu /L10qRlBCqsFUCKjuQ13ougwWzehqWocSM7xFbHiwYegbOYJIt/J8GRTSphAAc/IXNxA o/QR0WmMt3Rr9/Z8RTFG6WRUg72slcENJ91CRvg4tLf3p19skDGjdSesRMqooJ1TxrwN kPhHasmtBgG5lahnT+KGJMN8FxVv+FrAn5x5/Kv9qYOj8nLmDk3goWg8x91Iiv6qr5n8 fwxGc9VtkPBY6BwtxtcN575WzcMCKX9wO1T2K3HDKmiEMiuIAhwnOqpeTpRRAHJ8OTQF ea5Q== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20230601; t=1695323438; x=1695928238; h=to:from:subject:message-id:references:mime-version:in-reply-to:date :x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=msCRqftjzvMka6Rl5V/NvDEz768neF2Qswneru1ptF4=; b=gq1a8i/scxEGQfCTUd9oo4Mt+UizXL+UacvS0AIJ4sGvK1D/tVkwMKBTGZI3bJQ4Zv qRmsPcnXnyRdzRMQ/+bXOw7AXuvw3knb9mhv6Id5wFQuY64a6udJppb3BGCtKA2MF+WO yzW6dpk3vQ1vwxVU5PUUzc1V7PJxXuJ9OHwYNPV6wM0sKRGlgAdPY2I7jmQagsUoYqUI xov+nnxSF7SzDvOWXp300oSaLiM7TT6N1WmIRD4zRr5bscY/TlTprwQ+ChogsSuKqbiC 4GLbLO8V+fP1d7qs14l8M+D+mQUBGiO+ukug0uz/b3wfTZNUR3GrZR8KYdJh+W5RgZj3 2iHw== X-Gm-Message-State: AOJu0Yw5hYgc+PBvXDdKC68HWWbw2ERcjP5pd526peqCrKwq4KzMbWZk NQw3VYwGPykUE9uKh/X26Dl5Ico2v4o= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AGHT+IHW881nAqFnjABVXUT4908B5v4pAo/onJespz4HnG5MCVd8NLEq9DsMcDxqDXD3hJb4Zo/K0u0JOVE= X-Received: from zagreus.c.googlers.com ([fda3:e722:ac3:cc00:7f:e700:c0a8:5c37]) (user=seanjc job=sendgmr) by 2002:a05:690c:70a:b0:58c:e8da:4d1a with SMTP id bs10-20020a05690c070a00b0058ce8da4d1amr8361ywb.2.1695323438500; Thu, 21 Sep 2023 12:10:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2023 12:10:36 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20230914015531.1419405-15-seanjc@google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 References: <20230914015531.1419405-1-seanjc@google.com> <20230914015531.1419405-15-seanjc@google.com> Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v12 14/33] KVM: Add KVM_CREATE_GUEST_MEMFD ioctl() for guest-specific backing memory From: Sean Christopherson To: Paolo Bonzini , Marc Zyngier , Oliver Upton , Huacai Chen , Michael Ellerman , Anup Patel , Paul Walmsley , Palmer Dabbelt , Albert Ou , "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" , Andrew Morton , Paul Moore , James Morris , "Serge E. Hallyn" , kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, kvmarm@lists.linux.dev, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, kvm-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Chao Peng , Fuad Tabba , Jarkko Sakkinen , Anish Moorthy , Yu Zhang , Isaku Yamahata , Xu Yilun , Vlastimil Babka , Vishal Annapurve , Ackerley Tng , Maciej Szmigiero , David Hildenbrand , Quentin Perret , Michael Roth , Wang , Liam Merwick , Isaku Yamahata , "Kirill A . Shutemov" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Sep 13, 2023, Sean Christopherson wrote: > virt/kvm/guest_mem.c | 593 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Getting to the really important stuff... Anyone object to naming the new file guest_memfd.c instead of guest_mem.c? Just the file, i.e. still keep the gmem namespace. Using guest_memfd.c would make it much more obvious that the file holds more than generic "guest memory" APIs, and would provide a stronger conceptual connection with memfd.c.