Re: [PATCH v12 00/16] Direct Map Removal Support for guest_memfd

From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 00/16] Direct Map Removal Support for guest_memfd
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:36:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aeennZlV60k81OBf@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aed88qcV6PjEIHnd@lucifer>

On Tue, Apr 21, 2026, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2026 at 03:17:47PM +0000, Kalyazin, Nikita wrote:
> > From: Nikita Kalyazin <nikita.kalyazin@linux.dev>
> >
> > [ based on kvm/next ]
> 
> Hm, given this touches a fair bit of mm, I wonder if we shouldn't try to do this
> through the mm tree?

Yeah, when the time comes, the mm pieces definitely need to go through the mm
tree.  Ideally, I think this would be merged in two separate parts, with all mm
changes going through the mm tree, and then the KVM changes through the KVM tree
using a stable topic branch/tag from Andrew.