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Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:05:21 +0000 Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2026 18:05:20 +0100 Message-ID: <86pkxc1acv.wl-maz@kernel.org> From: Marc Zyngier To: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Amit Machhiwal , Catalin Marinas , Colton Lewis , Eric Auger , Fuad Tabba , Gautam Menghani , Gavin Shan , Gokul K , Hemanth Selam , Hiroyuki Katsura , Itaru Kitayama , Jack Thomson , Jiaqi Yan , Joey Gouly , Jonathan Cameron , Jonathan Davies , Karl Mehltretter , Leonardo Bras , Like Xu , Lorenzo Stoakes , Mark Brown , Nina Schoetterl-Glausch , Oliver Upton , Randy Dunlap , Sascha Bischoff , Sean Christopherson , Sebastian Ene , Sebastian Ott , Shen Yongchao , Shuai Xue , Stefan Teodorescu , Steffen Eiden , Steven Price , Steven Rostedt , Suzuki K Poulose , Tharit Tangkijwanichakul , Vincent Donnefort , Wang Han , Wei-Lin Chang , Will Deacon , Yuan Yao , Zenghui Yu , Zenghui Yu , kvmarm@lists.linux.dev, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] KVM/arm64 updates for Linux 7.4 In-Reply-To: References: <20261014162126.964330-1-maz@kernel.org> <86qzhs1ay2.wl-maz@kernel.org> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.9 (Almost Unreal) SEMI-EPG/1.14.7 (Harue) FLIM-LB/1.14.9 (=?UTF-8?B?R29qxY0=?=) APEL-LB/10.8 EasyPG/1.0.0 Emacs/30.1 (aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: kvm@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI-EPG 1.14.7 - "Harue") Content-Type: text/plain; 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SAEximRunCond expanded to false On Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:56:40 +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >=20 > On Wed, Oct 14, 2026 at 6:52=E2=80=AFPM Marc Zyngier wro= te: > > > > On Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:30:50 +0100, > > Looks pretty good to me: >=20 > Good, applied (I idly wonder what the x86 maintainers would think of > KVM growing a memory allocator...). If x86 ever grows something like pKVM, I have no doubt that this will be a requirement, just like the whole caretaker thingy will eventually grow into a full-blown hypervisor. Bloat knows no boundary! M. --=20 Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.