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charset="us-ascii" On Tue, Apr 21, 2026, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote: > On Fri, Apr 10, 2026 at 03:17:47PM +0000, Kalyazin, Nikita wrote: > > From: Nikita Kalyazin > > > > [ 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.