linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 kvm/queue 06/16] KVM: Implement fd-based memory using MEMFD

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Message-ID: <e3fe04eb-1a01-bea4-f1ea-cb9ee98ee216@redhat.com>
Date:   Fri, 24 Dec 2021 00:09:47 +0100
From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Chao Peng <chao.p.peng@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
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        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 kvm/queue 06/16] KVM: Implement fd-based memory using
 MEMFD_OPS interfaces

On 12/23/21 19:34, Sean Christopherson wrote:
>>   	select HAVE_KVM_PM_NOTIFIER if PM
>> +	select MEMFD_OPS
> MEMFD_OPS is a weird Kconfig name given that it's not just memfd() that can
> implement the ops.
> 

Or, it's kvm that implements them to talk to memfd?

Paolo