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

[Xiaoyao Li]

On 7/29/2026 8:35 AM, 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>

Reviewed-by: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@xxxxxxxxx>