Re: [PATCH Part2 v5 39/45] KVM: SVM: Introduce ops for the post gfn map and unmap

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Wed Oct 13 2021 - 18:10:38 EST


On Wed, Oct 13, 2021, Brijesh Singh wrote:
>
> On 10/13/21 1:10 PM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > Side topic, what do you think about s/assigned/private for the "public" APIs, as
> > suggested/implied above? I actually like the terminology when talking specifically
> > about the RMP, but it doesn't fit the abstractions that tend to be used when talking
> > about these things in other contexts, e.g. in KVM.
>
> I can float the idea to see if docs folks is okay with the changes but
> generally speaking we all have been referring the assigned == private in
> the Linux SNP support patch.

Oh, I wasn't suggesting anything remotely close to an "official" change, it was
purely a suggestion for the host-side patches. It might even be unique to this
one helper.