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V" , Emi Kisanuki , Vishal Annapurve , WeiLin.Chang@arm.com, Lorenzo Pieralisi Subject: Re: [PATCH v16 00/45] arm64: Support for Arm CCA in KVM In-Reply-To: <57225daf-4319-406a-8328-e32835e8a980@arm.com> References: <20260803134403.80630-1-steven.price@arm.com> <86y0enb64s.wl-maz@kernel.org> <57225daf-4319-406a-8328-e32835e8a980@arm.com> 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) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI-EPG 1.14.7 - "Harue") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 185.219.108.64 X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: steven.price@arm.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, kvmarm@lists.linux.dev, catalin.marinas@arm.com, will@kernel.org, james.morse@arm.com, oliver.upton@linux.dev, suzuki.poulose@arm.com, yuzenghui@huawei.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, joey.gouly@arm.com, alexandru.elisei@arm.com, christoffer.dall@arm.com, tabba@google.com, linux-coco@lists.linux.dev, gankulkarni@os.amperecomputing.com, gshan@redhat.com, sdonthineni@nvidia.com, alpergun@google.com, aneesh.kumar@kernel.org, fj0570is@fujitsu.com, vannapurve@google.com, WeiLin.Chang@arm.com, lpieralisi@kernel.org X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: maz@kernel.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on disco-boy.misterjones.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-BeenThere: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:06:24 +0100, Steven Price wrote: > > On 03/08/2026 16:01, Marc Zyngier wrote: > > On Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:43:16 +0100, > > Steven Price wrote: > >> > >> This series is based on the guest_memfd in-place conversion v9 tree[1], > >> which is itself based on kvm-x86/next. It is also available as a git > >> repository: > > > > Well done. Series on top of another random series, based on a random > > tree. Unusable. Have you realised there are reasons why we (KVM/arm64) > > ask people to base their series on a *released* tag from Linus' tree? > > This means that Sashiko cannot, once again, provide any feedback on > > this series, as it fails to apply. > > > > Just to avoid any ambiguity: Sashiko reviews, as annoying as they are, > > are not optional. They are very much mandatory, and I wish I could > > turn back the clocks to run it on my own code... > > > > Running it on your own is not enough, because *I* want to see what the > > tool finds. Not to mention that non-Gemini runs of sashiko are much > > less interesting (unsurprisingly). > > Sorry, but I'm not sure what you expect me to do - clearly I want to > base my changes on top of the guest_memfd series which is being worked > on and not just ignore that work. So I've based my changes on top of the > tree that Ackerley published. But that completely ignores the way the KVM/arm64 tree is managed. If you base a series on a bunch of unmerged patches, how do you expect people to do a sensible job at reviewing it? Now I need to ingest another pile of random patches just to review this set? Not happening, sorry. M. -- Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.