linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -v2] treewide: Rename "unencrypted" to "decrypted"

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Message-ID: <20200319102834.GC13073@zn.tnic>
Date:   Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:28:34 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
        Vasily Gorbik <gor@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
        Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
        iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2] treewide: Rename "unencrypted" to "decrypted"

On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 11:20:11AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> I thought we agreed that decrypted is absolutely the wrong term.

I don't think we did. At least I don't know where we did that.

> So NAK - if you want to change things it needs to go the other way.

We are already using "decrypted" everywhere in arch/x86/. Changing that
would be a *lot* more churn.

And it is just a term, for chrissakes, to denote memory which is not
encrypted. And it would make our lifes easier if we had only *two* terms
instead of three or more. Especially if the concept we denote with this
is a binary one: encrypted memory and *not* encrypted memory.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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