[PATCH v2 05/26] KVM: x86/mmu: Rename shadow MMU functions that deal with shadow pages

David Matlack dmatlack at google.com
Tue Mar 22 14:35:25 PDT 2022


On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 1:52 AM Peter Xu <peterx at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 12:25:07AM +0000, David Matlack wrote:
> > Rename 3 functions:
> >
> >   kvm_mmu_get_page()   -> kvm_mmu_get_shadow_page()
> >   kvm_mmu_alloc_page() -> kvm_mmu_alloc_shadow_page()
> >   kvm_mmu_free_page()  -> kvm_mmu_free_shadow_page()
> >
> > This change makes it clear that these functions deal with shadow pages
> > rather than struct pages. Prefer "shadow_page" over the shorter "sp"
> > since these are core routines.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack at google.com>
>
> Acked-by: Peter Xu <peterx at redhat.com>

What's the reason to use Acked-by for this patch but Reviewed-by for others?


>
> --
> Peter Xu
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