On 9/1/2026 8:59 PM, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 01, 2026 at 09:55:17AM -0700, Thara Gopinath wrote:
>> The VSM secure kernel runs in VTL1 and cannot use the normal Linux
>> kernel memory allocators — its memory must be reserved before the
>> general-purpose allocator takes ownership of the physical address space.
>>
>> Add hv_vsm_securekernel.c to handle this early boot reservation. The
>> driver parses a new "securekernel=<size>[K|M|G][@<addr>]" kernel command
>
> We should add a prefix to it, unless you tell me there is a plan to
> extend this to other virtualization solutions.
Thanks for the reviews Wei.. Yes I will add a prefix hv_ and we can
remove it if/when this gets extended to other virtualization solutions.
Warm Regards
Thara
>
> Wei
