From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Yosry Ahmed <yosry@kernel.org>, Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>,
Oliver Upton <oupton@kernel.org>,
Tianrui Zhao <zhaotianrui@loongson.cn>,
Bibo Mao <maobibo@loongson.cn>,
Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>,
Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>,
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>,
Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com>,
Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/5] MAINTAINERS: Add an entry for KVM's guest_memfd
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:27:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14ef288d-f06c-40b4-9ae6-a32eb9d21555@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260428171541.1342335-4-seanjc@google.com>
On 4/28/26 19:15, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> To better reflect how guest_memfd has been maintained for the last few
> years, and to prepare for significant upcoming growth and expansion, add a
> dedicated MAINTAINERS entry for KVM's guest_memfd, with Paolo and myself
> (Sean) as co-maintainers.
>
> List both the KVM and KVM x86 git trees as authoritative repositories, as
> any given guest_memfd change has a equal odds of hitting KVM x86 or not.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
> ---
> MAINTAINERS | 9 +++++++++
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 89b470db22de..9eceeb6f699d 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -14396,6 +14396,15 @@ S: Maintained
> F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/leds/backlight/kinetic,ktz8866.yaml
> F: drivers/video/backlight/ktz8866.c
>
> +KVM GUEST_MEMFD
> +M: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
> +M: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> +L: kvm@vger.kernel.org
> +S: Supported
> +T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm.git
> +T: git https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux.git
> +F: virt/kvm/guest_memfd.*
>
LGTM. There is still the open question regarding other hypervisors, and it
having to move out of virt/kvm at some point.
For the time being, this is the right thing to do.
--
Cheers,
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-28 19:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-28 17:15 [RFC PATCH 0/5] MAINTAINERS: KVM tweaks and additions Sean Christopherson
2026-04-28 17:15 ` [RFC PATCH 1/5] MAINTAINERS: Add kvm-x86 tree to KVM x86 entries Sean Christopherson
2026-04-28 17:15 ` [RFC PATCH 2/5] KVM: guest_memfd: Move gmem function declarations to dedicated guest_memfd.h Sean Christopherson
2026-04-28 19:26 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-04-30 19:07 ` Ackerley Tng
2026-04-30 21:38 ` Sean Christopherson
2026-04-28 17:15 ` [RFC PATCH 3/5] MAINTAINERS: Add an entry for KVM's guest_memfd Sean Christopherson
2026-04-28 19:27 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm) [this message]
2026-04-30 19:08 ` Ackerley Tng
2026-04-30 21:33 ` Sean Christopherson
2026-04-28 17:15 ` [RFC PATCH 4/5] MAINTAINERS: Add David H. as a KVM guest_memfd reviewer Sean Christopherson
2026-04-28 19:27 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-04-30 19:08 ` Ackerley Tng
2026-04-28 17:15 ` [RFC PATCH 5/5] MAINTAINERS: Add myself (Sean) as a reviewer in the main KVM entry Sean Christopherson
2026-04-28 19:30 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
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