Re: [PATCH v12 00/16] Direct Map Removal Support for guest_memfd

Sean Christopherson
2026-04-21T16:36:47Z

On Tue, Apr 21, 2026, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2026 at 03:17:47PM +0000, Kalyazin, Nikita wrote:
> > From: Nikita Kalyazin <nikita.kalyazin@linux.dev>
> >
> > [ based on kvm/next ]
>
> Hm, given this touches a fair bit of mm, I wonder if we shouldn't try to do this
> through the mm tree?

Yeah, when the time comes, the mm pieces definitely need to go through the mm
tree. Ideally, I think this would be merged in two separate parts, with all mm
changes going through the mm tree, and then the KVM changes through the KVM tree
using a stable topic branch/tag from Andrew.