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[54.240.197.234]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id ffacd0b85a97d-48feda20935sm4836773f8f.54.2026.11.04.09.24.48 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 04 Nov 2026 09:24:48 -0800 (PST) From: Fred Griffoul To: Sean Christopherson Cc: Paolo Bonzini , Mushahid Hussain , nh-open-source@amazon.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: Add helpers to allocate memslot metadata Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2026 17:24:48 +0000 Message-ID: <20261104172448.66264-1-griffoul@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.47.3 In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailing-List: kvm@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Owner: Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On Wed, Nov 04, 2026, Sean Christopherson wrote: > Split this into two patches: patch 1 to add the helpers, patch 2 to add the logic > to pivot on INT_MAX > > As is, the shortlog is comically misleading. Pretty much anyone is going to read > this and assume it's just refactoring existing code. Thanks for the review, Sean. I'll split it as you suggest and send a v2 shortly. Fred