linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v1 1/2] virt: memctl: control guest physical memory properties

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Message-ID: <2024051533-cyclic-unshipped-5599@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 15 May 2024 07:34:07 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@...gle.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <liuwe@...rosoft.com>, Rob Bradford <rbradford@...osinc.com>,
	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
	Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...een.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>,
	Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@...ux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	virtualization@...ts.linux.dev, dev@...ts.cloudhypervisor.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 1/2] virt: memctl: control guest physical memory
 properties

On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 06:21:57PM -0700, Yuanchu Xie wrote:
> On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 9:06 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, May 13, 2024 at 07:03:00PM -0700, Yuanchu Xie wrote:
> > > Memctl provides a way for the guest to control its physical memory
> > > properties, and enables optimizations and security features. For
> > > example, the guest can provide information to the host where parts of a
> > > hugepage may be unbacked, or sensitive data may not be swapped out, etc.
> > >...
> > Pretty generic name for a hardware-specific driver :(
> It's not for real hardware btw. Its use case is similar to pvpanic
> where the device is emulated by the VMM. I can change the name if it's
> a problem.

This file is only used for a single PCI device, that is very
hardware-specific even if that hardware is "fake" :)

Please make the name more specific as well.

thanks,

greg k-h