Re: [RFC PATCH 3/5] MAINTAINERS: Add an entry for KVM's guest_memfd

David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-04-28T19:27:25Z

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.

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Cheers,

David