Re: [RFC PATCH v2 06/10] kvm: guest_memfd: Add support for freezing and unfreezing mappings

[Sean Christopherson]

On Mon, Jun 22, 2026, Ackerley Tng wrote:
> Tarun Sahu <tarunsahu@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > This patch introduces the freeze on gmem_inode which prevents
> 
> Can't find the reference now, but commit messages should take the
> imperative mood and avoid "this patch" [*]

>From Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst:

  Describe your changes in imperative mood, e.g. "make xyzzy do frotz"
  instead of "[This patch] makes xyzzy do frotz" or "[I] changed xyzzy
  to do frotz", as if you are giving orders to the codebase to change
  its behaviour.

Documentation/process/maintainer-tip.rst and Documentation/process/maintainer-kvm-x86.rst
elaborate more on the preferred style (I do most of the guest_memfd maintenance,
and so for all intents and purpose it's bound by KVM x86 "rules").