Re: [PATCH v9 04/41] KVM: Rename memory attribute APIs to prepare for in-place gmem conversion

[David Hildenbrand (Arm)]

On 7/29/26 02:35, Ackerley Tng via B4 Relay wrote:
> From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Rename memory attribute APIs to add a "vm_" in the name in anticipation of
> moving PRIVATE tracking into guest_memfd, to allow in-place conversion
> between SHARED and PRIVATE.  At that point, there will effectively be two
> (potential) sources of memory attributes: the VM and guest_memfd.
> 
> kvm_vm_set_mem_attributes() already has "vm" in the name to indicate that
> it is a VM ioctl. Rename it to kvm_set_vm_mem_attributes() to show that it
> is setting the VM's memory attributes. (Drop the VM-ioctl scoping since it
> is a helper local to the file.) Update the accompanying trace function to
> match.
> 
> No functional change intended.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Shivank Garg <shivankg@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Cheers,

David