linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Add "Unaccepted" meminfo entry

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Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2025 12:01:53 -0600
From: Nico Pache <npache@...hat.com>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com, corbet@....net, 
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	catalin.marinas@....com, jeffxu@...omium.org, andrii@...nel.org, 
	xu.xin16@....com.cn
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Add "Unaccepted" meminfo entry

On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 2:42 AM David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> On 18.03.25 00:04, Nico Pache wrote:
> > Commit dcdfdd40fa82 ("mm: Add support for unaccepted memory") added a
> > entry to meminfo but did not document it in the proc.rst file.
> >
> > This counter tracks the amount of "Unaccepted" guest memory for some
> > Virtual Machine platforms, such as Intel TDX or AMD SEV-SNP.
> >
> > Add the missing entry in the documentation.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Nico Pache <npache@...hat.com>
> > ---
> >   Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst | 3 +++
> >   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
> > index 09f0aed5a08b..8fcf19c31b18 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
> > +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
> > @@ -1060,6 +1060,7 @@ Example output. You may not have all of these fields.
> >       FilePmdMapped:         0 kB
> >       CmaTotal:              0 kB
> >       CmaFree:               0 kB
> > +    Unaccepted:            0 kB
> >       HugePages_Total:       0
> >       HugePages_Free:        0
> >       HugePages_Rsvd:        0
> > @@ -1228,6 +1229,8 @@ CmaTotal
> >                 Memory reserved for the Contiguous Memory Allocator (CMA)
> >   CmaFree
> >                 Free remaining memory in the CMA reserves
> > +Unaccepted
> > +              Memory that has not been accepted by the guest
>
> I was wondering if we could be clearer like
>
> "Memory that has not been accepted. Especially in some confidential VM
> implementations, memory must be accepted manually by the guest OS before
> it can be used the first time."
I actually grappled with the description for longer than I'd like to
admit lol. I wanted to add more but *most* others left the description
short-- so I tried to make it short too.
>
> In any case
>
> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>

Thanks!
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> David / dhildenb
>