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Peter Anvin" , Shuah Khan , kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On Fri, Feb 06, 2026, Yosry Ahmed wrote: > On Fri, Feb 06, 2026 at 11:12:36AM -0800, Sean Christopherson wrote: > > Oh, and if we do plumb in @ctrl to __nested_vmcb_check_save(), I vote to > > opportunistically drop the useless single-use wrappers (probably in a standalone > > patch to plumb in @ctrl). E.g. (completely untested) > > They are dropped by > https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20260206190851.860662-9-yosry.ahmed@linux.dev/. At least I'm consistent? Hmm. Jim, can you base your next version on v5 of Yosry's series? I think when I apply, I'll splice in this series between patches 20 and 21. I could resolve the conflicts when applying, but since I'll probably tag these for stable@ as well, I'd rather apply patches that are closer to what was posted.