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Sun, 4 Oct 2026 22:32:01 -0500 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2026 09:01:59 +0530 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: kvm@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 0/8] KVM: SVM: Add Page Modification Logging (PML) support To: Sean Christopherson , , , , CC: , , , References: <20260907063906.1964557-1-nikunj@amd.com> <179097502898.4082124.6984085314381773615.b4-ty@b4> Content-Language: en-US From: "Nikunj A. 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PML is designed to track guest modified memory pages. PML enables the >> hypervisor to identify which pages in a guest's memory have been modified >> since the last checkpoint or during live migration. More details can be >> found in the latest AMD APM Volume 2 (System Programming), section >> "15.25.15 Page Modification Logging". >> >> [...] > > Applied to kvm-x86 misc, thanks! Thanks Sean for picking this up, and for the review through the series. Thanks to Kai, Yosry, Boris and Pankaj for the reviews. Regards, Nikunj