Re: [PATCH 1/2] KVM: TDX: Enable Notify VM exit

[Edgecombe, Rick P]

On Thu, 2026-08-06 at 06:50 -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > It should be instruction timeout (as is in the SDM). Please reword the
> > changelog to refer to the name of the features as they are in the SDM. I.e
> > if you search for NOTIFY_VMEXIT or NOTIFY_WINDOW absolutely nothing can be
> > found in the SDM.  The changelog should ideally mention both - SDM's
> > nomenclature and linux's nomenclature.
> 
> No, let's change Linux's nomenclature before merging this, "Notify" was always
> vague and confusing.  It's unfortunate that we let that bleed into uAPI
> headers, but we can simply #define aliases (or just force userspace to update
> as well, if they use kernel headers directly).

Hmm, ok. We were trying to go with a minimal backport friendly fix.

Xiaoyao, if we are going to carve it up, I guess we might as well do the
consolidation of the exit handlers too on this version. (a cleanup patch that
got left off of this).