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Peter Anvin" , Matthew Rosato , Farhan Ali , Eric Farman , Tony Krowiak , Halil Pasic , Jason Herne , Harald Freudenberger , Holger Dengler , Alex Williamson , kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jason Gunthorpe Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On Mon, Sep 28, 2026, Steffen Eiden wrote: > This series switches the KVM-VFIO interface and external consumers over to > standard file-based reference counting, eliminating all external KVM symbol > exports. ... > Steffen Eiden (6): > KVM: Introduce file_to_kvm_() infrastructure > KVM: Add file back-pointer to struct kvm > KVM: x86: Use file_to_kvm_x86() in SEV > KVM/vfio: Use file-based reference counting for KVM > KVM: Restrict kvm_get_kvm/kvm_put_kvm export to internal KVM modules > KVM: Remove unused file_is_kvm Acked-by: Sean Christopherson