Re: [PATCH v16 00/51] KVM: x86: Super Mega CET

Chao Gao
2025-09-24T14:32:41Z

On Fri, Sep 19, 2025 at 03:32:07PM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
>As the subject suggests, this series continues to grow, as there an absolutely
>stupid number of edge cases and interactions.
>
>There are (a lot) more changes between v15 and v16 than I was hoping for, but
>there all fairly "minor" in the sense that it's things like disabling SHSTK
>when using the shadow MMU. I.e. it's mostly "configuration" fixes, and very
>few logical changes (outside of msrs_test.c, which has non-trivial changes due
>to ignore_msrs, argh).
>
>So, my plan is to still land this in 6.18. I'm going to push it to -next
>today to get as much testing as possible, but in a dedicated branch so that I
>can fixup as needed (e.g. even if it's just for reviews). I'll freeze the
>hashes sometime next week.

The CET branch in your kvm-x86 repo passed all my tests on an Emerald Rapids
system, including:

1. kselftest
2. KVM-Unit-Test for both i386 and x86_64
3. glibc unit tests in the guest