Re: [PATCH 2/2] KVM: arm64: Redefine pKVM memory transitions in terms of source/target

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Hey Oliver,

On Friday 28 Oct 2022 at 08:34:48 (+0000), Oliver Upton wrote:
> Perhaps it is just me, but the 'initiator' and 'completer' terms are
> slightly confusing descriptors for the addresses involved in a memory
> transition. Apply a rename to instead describe memory transitions in
> terms of a source and target address.

Just to provide some rationale for the initiator/completer terminology,
the very first implementation we did of this used 'sender/recipient (or
something along those lines I think), and we ended up confusing
ourselves massively. The main issue is that memory doesn't necessarily
'flow' in the same direction as the transition. It's all fine for a
donation or a share, but reclaim and unshare become funny. 'The
recipient of an unshare' can be easily misunderstood, I think.

So yeah, we ended up with initiator/completer, which may not be the
prettiest terminology, but it was useful to disambiguate things at
least.

Thanks for the review!
Quentin



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