Re: [PATCH kvm-next V11 4/7] KVM: guest_memfd: Use guest mem inodes instead of anonymous inodes

Sean Christopherson
2025-09-25T15:06:47Z

On Thu, Sep 25, 2025, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 25.09.25 15:41, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > Regarding timing, how much do people care about getting this into 6.18 in
> > particular?
>
> I think it will be beneficial if we start getting stuff upstream. But
> waiting a bit longer probably doesn't hurt.
>
> > AFAICT, this hasn't gotten any coverage in -next, which makes me a
> > little nervous.
>
> Right.
>
> If we agree, then Shivank can just respin a new version after the merge
> window.

Actually, if Shivank is ok with it, I'd be happy to post the next version(s).
I'll be focusing on the in-place conversion support for the next 1-2 weeks, and
have some (half-baked) refactoring changes to better leverage the inode support
from this series.

I can also plop the first three patches (the non-KVM changes) in a topic branch
straightaway, but not feed it into -next until the merge window closes. The 0-day
bots scrapes kvm-x86, so that'd get us some early build-bot exposure, and we can
stop bugging the non-KVM folks. Then when the dust settles on the KVM changes,
I can throw them into the same topic branch.