linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] Expose GPU memory as coherently CPU accessible

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Date:   Wed, 12 Apr 2023 10:48:54 +0100
From:   Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>
To:     Ankit Agrawal <ankita@...dia.com>
Cc:     David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>,
        "alex.williamson@...hat.com" <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
        "naoya.horiguchi@....com" <naoya.horiguchi@....com>,
        "oliver.upton@...ux.dev" <oliver.upton@...ux.dev>,
        Aniket Agashe <aniketa@...dia.com>, Neo Jia <cjia@...dia.com>,
        Kirti Wankhede <kwankhede@...dia.com>,
        "Tarun Gupta (SW-GPU)" <targupta@...dia.com>,
        Vikram Sethi <vsethi@...dia.com>,
        Andy Currid <acurrid@...dia.com>,
        Alistair Popple <apopple@...dia.com>,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
        Dan Williams <danw@...dia.com>,
        "kvm@...r.kernel.org" <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] Expose GPU memory as coherently CPU accessible

On Wed, 12 Apr 2023 09:43:56 +0100,
Ankit Agrawal <ankita@...dia.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks David, response inline.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > I briefly skimmed over the series, the patch subject prefixes are a bit
> > misleading IMHO and could be improved:
> 
> Understood. Will fix that in the next iteration.
> 
> 
> >> Ankit Agrawal (6):
> >>    kvm: determine memory type from VMA
> 
> > this is arch64 specific kvm (kvm/aarch64: ?)
> Right. I'll change the prefix to kvm/aarch64

Please look at the git log: the idiomatic prefix is
"KVM: arm64: Something starting with a capital letter"

AArch64 is almost never used anywhere in the arm64 tree.

	M.

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