Re: [PATCH 6.6 111/160] vfio: Create vfio_fs_type with inode per device

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-04-08T19:44:41Z

On Wed, Apr 08, 2026 at 08:03:18PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 6.6-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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> From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
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> commit b7c5e64fecfa88764791679cca4786ac65de739e upstream.
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> By linking all the device fds we provide to userspace to an
> address space through a new pseudo fs, we can use tools like
> unmap_mapping_range() to zap all vmas associated with a device.
>
> Suggested-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
> Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
> Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240530045236.1005864-2-alex.williamson@redhat.com
> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Tugrul Kukul <tugrul.kukul@est.tech>
> Tested-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>
> Tested-by: Pavel Machek (CIP) <pavel@denx.de>
> Tested-by: Ron Economos <re@w6rz.net>
> Tested-by: Justin M. Forbes <jforbes@fedoraproject.org>
> Tested-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
> Tested-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
> Tested-by: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>
> Tested-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
> Tested-by: Peter Schneider <pschneider1968@googlemail.com>
> Reviewed-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
> Acked-by: Alex Williamson <alex@shazbot.org>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

Sasha, something went odd with your scripts to pull all of these names
in as "tested-by", right? The original commit did not say that :(

thanks,

greg k-h