From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 646ABC1975A for ; Tue, 17 Mar 2020 21:55:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fraxinus.osuosl.org (smtp4.osuosl.org [140.211.166.137]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2566320738 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 2020 21:55:47 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 2566320738 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=perches.com Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=iommu-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fraxinus.osuosl.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E784587470; Tue, 17 Mar 2020 21:55:47 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at osuosl.org Received: from fraxinus.osuosl.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (.osuosl.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id BoY5-QuI58SB; Tue, 17 Mar 2020 21:55:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lists.linuxfoundation.org (lf-lists.osuosl.org [140.211.9.56]) by fraxinus.osuosl.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EE5D87061; Tue, 17 Mar 2020 21:55:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lf-lists.osuosl.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lists.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38B1CC1D74; Tue, 17 Mar 2020 21:55:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fraxinus.osuosl.org (smtp4.osuosl.org [140.211.166.137]) by lists.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1240FC013E for ; Tue, 17 Mar 2020 21:55:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fraxinus.osuosl.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F303B87434 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 2020 21:55:45 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at osuosl.org Received: from fraxinus.osuosl.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (.osuosl.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id JOCpJMK-eEpX for ; Tue, 17 Mar 2020 21:55:45 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from smtprelay.hostedemail.com (smtprelay0192.hostedemail.com [216.40.44.192]) by fraxinus.osuosl.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2CD6387061 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 2020 21:55:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtprelay.hostedemail.com (10.5.19.251.rfc1918.com [10.5.19.251]) by smtpgrave03.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D0AB180300D3 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 2020 21:36:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from filter.hostedemail.com (clb03-v110.bra.tucows.net [216.40.38.60]) by smtprelay02.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B53645A8; Tue, 17 Mar 2020 21:36:22 +0000 (UTC) X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-HE-Tag: tax31_8e64a60b0ff18 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 3175 Received: from XPS-9350.home (unknown [47.151.143.254]) (Authenticated sender: joe@perches.com) by omf13.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Tue, 17 Mar 2020 21:36:18 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <1e52a8441a319e55b913376ad47c6b18843742cd.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] treewide: Rename "unencrypted" to "decrypted" From: Joe Perches To: Dave Hansen , Borislav Petkov Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 14:34:30 -0700 In-Reply-To: References: <20200317111822.GA15609@zn.tnic> <2cb4a8ae-3b13-67bd-c021-aee47fdf58c5@intel.com> <20200317210602.GG15609@zn.tnic> User-Agent: Evolution 3.34.1-2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: "Schofield, Alison" , Peter Zijlstra , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Dave Hansen , Heiko Carstens , Paul Mackerras , Christoph Hellwig , linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, Michael Ellerman , x86@kernel.org, Christian Borntraeger , Ingo Molnar , Borislav Petkov , Tom Lendacky , Vasily Gorbik , "Shutemov, Kirill" , Andy Lutomirski , Thomas Gleixner , Robin Murphy , lkml , iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org X-BeenThere: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: Development issues for Linux IOMMU support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: iommu-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Sender: "iommu" On Tue, 2020-03-17 at 14:24 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: > On 3/17/20 2:06 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 01:35:12PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: > > > On 3/17/20 4:18 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > > > Back then when the whole SME machinery started getting mainlined, it > > > > was agreed that for simplicity, clarity and sanity's sake, the terms > > > > denoting encrypted and not-encrypted memory should be "encrypted" and > > > > "decrypted". And the majority of the code sticks to that convention > > > > except those two. So rename them. > > > Don't "unencrypted" and "decrypted" mean different things? > > > > > > Unencrypted to me means "encryption was never used for this data". > > > > > > Decrypted means "this was/is encrypted but here is a plaintext copy". > > Maybe but linguistical semantics is not the point here. > > > > The idea is to represent a "binary" concept of memory being encrypted > > or memory being not encrypted. And at the time we decided to use > > "encrypted" and "decrypted" for those two things. > > Yeah, agreed. We're basically trying to name "!encrypted". > > > Do you see the need to differentiate a third "state", so to speak, of > > memory which was never encrypted? > > No, there are just two states. I just think the "!encrypted" case > should not be called "decrypted". Nor do I, it's completely misleading. _______________________________________________ iommu mailing list iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/iommu