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AKwUvBzSHmzZnWzctMKtMhmO+jb4uGQga2RXJkHXXMyVDY6G0HeCTmiAZseyPSRxZUOUzc0qKjwDJ1qaSJOfAyk=@vger.kernel.org X-Gm-Message-State: AFuF++k8E2gff80I0C5OPkWphq1zgViCNG1+/S4cF0mxM6jqZOyXfNDF xygaO+6tus/X5DM76uyHO2/bIhIJuvoAnegpJ7KNjooAcg5oK7ufXXwBIXlbPIFH73SzZlnu+pT l3b4I3A== X-Received: from pfbi25-n2.prod.google.com ([2002:a05:6a00:a519:20b0:84f:4ff1:f767]) (user=seanjc job=prod-delivery.src-stubby-dispatcher) by 2002:a05:6a00:ab08:b0:848:5cf5:5040 with SMTP id d2e1a72fcca58-85ed23e044bmr2745937b3a.10.1788309626365; Tue, 01 Sep 2026 17:40:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2026 17:40:25 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20260831144802.834315-3-seiden@linux.ibm.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Mime-Version: 1.0 References: <20260831144802.834315-1-seiden@linux.ibm.com> <20260831144802.834315-3-seiden@linux.ibm.com> Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 02/23] KVM: Make device name configurable From: Sean Christopherson To: Steffen Eiden Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, kvmarm@lists.linux.dev, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Gordeev , Andreas Grapentin , Arnd Bergmann , Catalin Marinas , Christian Borntraeger , Claudio Imbrenda , David Hildenbrand , Friedrich Welter , Fuad Tabba , Gautam Gala , Hariharan Mari , Heiko Carstens , Hendrik Brueckner , Ilya Leoshkevich , Janosch Frank , Joey Gouly , Marc Zyngier , Nico Boehr , Nina Schoetterl-Glausch , Oliver Upton , Paolo Bonzini , Suzuki K Poulose , Sven Schnelle , Ulrich Weigand , Vasily Gorbik , Will Deacon , Zenghui Yu Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On Mon, Aug 31, 2026, Steffen Eiden wrote: > Allow KVM implementations to choose alternative device names. This is > especially useful for architectures providing multiple KVM > implementations simultaneously. Architectures providing multiple KVM > implementations must compile the KVM common code once per > implementation and mange symbols. What about tracepoints? Or do those show up as "kvm" and "kvm-arm64"?