linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] virt: pvmemcontrol: control guest physical memory properties

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Message-ID: <2025010409-vegan-marine-f5e2@gregkh>
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2025 10:13:30 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@...gle.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <liuwe@...rosoft.com>, Rob Bradford <rbradford@...osinc.com>,
	Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...een.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	virtualization@...ts.linux.dev, dev@...ts.cloudhypervisor.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] virt: pvmemcontrol: control guest physical memory
 properties

On Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 10:58:24AM -0800, Yuanchu Xie wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 2, 2024 at 4:24 PM Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@...gle.com> wrote:
> >
> > Pvmemcontrol 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.
> Hello Greg,
> 
> I addressed the feedback from you earlier at [1]. Let me know how the v5 goes.

Why isn't this being reviewed by the KVM and mm developers?  THat's the
subsytems you are interacting with, right?

thanks,

greg k-h