linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/23] KVM: MMU: MMU role refactoring

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Date:   Mon, 14 Feb 2022 10:14:16 -0800
From:   David Matlack <dmatlack@...gle.com>
To:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
Cc:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kvm list <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/23] KVM: MMU: MMU role refactoring

On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 2:31 PM Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 04, 2022, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> >   KVM: MMU: replace direct_map with mmu_role.direct
>
> Heresy!  Everyone knows the one true way is "KVM: x86/mmu:"
>
>   $ glo | grep "KVM: MMU:" | wc -l
>   740
>   $ glo | grep "KVM: x86/mmu:" | wc -l
>   403
>
> Dammit, I'm the heathen...
>
> I do think we should use x86/mmu though.  VMX and SVM (and nVMX and nSVM) are ok
> because they're unlikely to collide with other architectures, but every arch has
> an MMU...

Can you document these rules/preferences somewhere? Even better if we
can enforce them with checkpatch :)