Re: propagating vmgenid outward and upward

[Jason A. Donenfeld]

On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 8:41 PM Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 01, 2022 at 07:24:11PM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> > Hi Greg,
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 7:01 PM Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > A notifier block like this makes sense, but why tie onto the PM_ stuff?
> > > This isn't power management issues, it's a system-wide change that I am
> > > sure others will want to know about that doesn't reflect any power
> > > changes.
> > >
> > > As much as I hate adding new notifiers in the kernel, that might be all
> > > you need here.
> >
> > You might indeed be right. I guess I was thinking that "resuming from
> > suspend" and "resuming from a VM fork" are kind of the same thing.
> > There _is_ a certain kind of similarity between the two. I was hoping
> > if the similarity was a strong enough one, maybe it'd make sense to do
> > them together rather than adding another notifier. But I suppose you
> > disagree, and it sounds like Rafael might too --
> > <https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAJZ5v0g+GihH_b9YvwuHzdrUVNGXOeabOznDC1vK6qLi8gtSTQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/>.
>
> Hey, nice, we agree!  :)

It is now done and posted here:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220301231038.530897-1-Jason@xxxxxxxxx/

Jason