Re: [RFC PATCH v1 1/2] virt: memctl: control guest physical memory properties

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 06:21:57PM -0700, Yuanchu Xie wrote:
> On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 9:06 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, May 13, 2024 at 07:03:00PM -0700, Yuanchu Xie wrote:
> > > Memctl 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.
> > >...
> > Pretty generic name for a hardware-specific driver :(
> It's not for real hardware btw. Its use case is similar to pvpanic
> where the device is emulated by the VMM. I can change the name if it's
> a problem.

This file is only used for a single PCI device, that is very
hardware-specific even if that hardware is "fake" :)

Please make the name more specific as well.

thanks,

greg k-h